Bayesian Spatial Split-Population Survival Model with Applications to Democratic Regime Failure and Civil War Recurrence

Minnie M. Joo (), Brandon Bolte, Nguyen Huynh and Bumba Mukherjee
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Minnie M. Joo: Department of Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA 01854, USA
Brandon Bolte: Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA
Nguyen Huynh: Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA
Bumba Mukherjee: Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA 16802, USA

Mathematics, 2023, vol. 11, issue 8, 1-23

Abstract: The underlying risk factors associated with the duration and termination of biological, sociological, economic, or political processes often exhibit spatial clustering. However, existing nonspatial survival models, including those that account for “immune” and “at-risk” subpopulations, assume that these baseline risks are spatially independent, leading to inaccurate inferences in split-population survival settings. In this paper, we develop a Bayesian spatial split-population survival model that addresses these methodological challenges by accounting for spatial autocorrelation among units in terms of their probability of becoming immune and their survival rates. Monte Carlo experiments demonstrate that, unlike nonspatial models, this spatial model provides accurate parameter estimates in the presence of spatial autocorrelation. Applying our spatial model to data from published studies on authoritarian reversals and civil war recurrence reveals that accounting for spatial autocorrelation in split-population models leads to new empirical insights, reflecting the need to theoretically and statistically account for space and non-failure inflation in applied research.

Keywords: Bayesian inference; estimation in survival analysis and censored data; spatial autocorrelation; split-population models; Monte Carlo; democratic survival; civil wars (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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