The effect of the modifiable areal unit problem on ecological model inference: A graphical simulation study for disease mapping in Australia

• James Hogg ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James Hogg, Aiden Price, Jessica Cameron, Susanna Cramb, Helen Thompson

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: james.hogg@hdr.qut.edu.au

  Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4666-5900

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• Aiden Price ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James Hogg, Aiden Price, Jessica Cameron, Susanna Cramb, Helen Thompson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Australian Urban Research Infrastructure Network, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5904-4110

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• Conor Hassan,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Shovanur Haque,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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• Farzana Jahan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematics, Statistics, Chemistry and Physics, College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Murdoch University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0300-6315

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• Wala Areed,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9681-1278

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• Jessica Cameron ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James Hogg, Aiden Price, Jessica Cameron, Susanna Cramb, Helen Thompson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Project chief investigators..

  Affiliation Descriptive Epidemiology, Cancer Council Queensland (CCQ), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8161-0358

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• Susanna Cramb ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: James Hogg, Aiden Price, Jessica Cameron, Susanna Cramb, Helen Thompson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Project chief investigators..

  Affiliation Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, QUT, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9041-9531

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• Helen Thompson

  Contributed equally to this work with: James Hogg, Aiden Price, Jessica Cameron, Susanna Cramb, Helen Thompson

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶☯ Project chief investigators..

  Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7006-3646

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