BUT based on preliminary results with the new run_single_region.R script #27 #28, we now know that independent fitting yields similar results.
What we need then is:
[x] Add script run_health_regions_independently.R to sequentially fit all micro-regions (aka. RSA) within Santa Catarina
[x] Add script run_macro_regions_independently.R to sequentially fit all macro-regions (aka. MAC) within Santa Catarina and keep consistent with the spatial scale we adopted in the paper
[x] After each location has been fitted individually, combined the different files produced by the algorithm to compose the plots for the entire state
We have always performed these experiments as a joint estimation of hierarchical parameters considering all geographic micro- or macro-regions within the state of Santa Catarina simultaneously.
This in line with the original
base
model (Flaxman et al 2020)(Flaxman et al 2020 - technical description) as well as with thebase-reported
version of it(Avelar et al 2021).BUT based on preliminary results with the new
run_single_region.R
script #27 #28, we now know that independent fitting yields similar results.What we need then is:
run_health_regions_independently.R
to sequentially fit all micro-regions (aka. RSA) within Santa Catarinarun_macro_regions_independently.R
to sequentially fit all macro-regions (aka. MAC) within Santa Catarina and keep consistent with the spatial scale we adopted in the paper