A Bayesian spatio‐network model for multiple adolescent adverse health behaviours

George Gerogiannis, Mark Tranmer, Duncan Lee and Thomas Valente

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C, 2022, vol. 71, issue 2, 271-287

Abstract: The use of alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana among adolescents are major public health concerns, and a number of epidemiological studies have been conducted to understand the drivers of these individual health behaviours. However, there is no literature that jointly models these health behaviours with the aim of understanding the relative importance of individual factors, friendship effects and spatial effects in determining the prevalence of alcohol, cigarette and marijuana use among adolescents. To address this gap in the literature, we propose a novel multivariate spatio‐network model for jointly modelling all three of these behaviours, with inference conducted in a Bayesian setting using Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation. The model is motivated by survey data from five schools in Los Angeles, California, and the results indicate the important roles that individual factors and friendship networks play in driving the uptake of these health behaviours.

Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1111/rssc.12531

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:bla:jorssc:v:71:y:2022:i:2:p:271-287

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
http://ordering.onli ... 1111/(ISSN)1467-9876

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C is currently edited by R. Chandler and P. W. F. Smith

More articles in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C from Royal Statistical Society Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Wiley Content Delivery ().