Understanding and reducing the incidence of accidental bycatch, particularly for vulnerable
species such as sharks, is a major challenge for contemporary fisheries management. Here …

Modeling longitudinal and survival data jointly offers many advantages such as addressing
measurement error and missing data in the longitudinal processes, understanding and …

Objective Multidrug‐resistant tuberculosis (MDR‐TB) remains a serious public health
problem worldwide. Accordingly, this study sought to identify individual, community and …

Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) is a major threat to the eradication of tuberculosis.
TB control strategies need to be adapted to the necessities of different countries and …

Joint modeling longitudinal and survival data offers many advantages such as addressing
measurement error and missing data in the longitudinal processes, understanding and …

Spatial inequalities in old-age survival exist in Portugal and might be associated with factors
pertaining to three distinct domains: socioeconomic, physical environmental and healthcare …

Background Further increases in life expectancy in high-income countries depend to a large
extent on advances in old-age survival. We aimed to characterise the spatial distribution of …

This thesis is divided into four parts. In the first part considers the stochastic partial
differential equation-SPDE approach to define non-separable space-time models. A review …

The success of vaccination programs depends on the level of acceptance of the vaccine to
achieve high vaccine coverage rates (VCR). Vaccine hesitancy is a challenge, especially …

This tutorial shows how various Bayesian survival models can be fitted using the integrated
nested Laplace approximation in a clear, legible, and comprehensible manner using the …