Add guidance text for methods/data

simon-smart88 commented 4 months ago

Starting this to keep track of bits of guidance text that I can't write myself:

Why do we need an aggregation raster / does it do?
When would it be appropriate to use a uniform raster?
What is the mesh and why is it needed?
What the mesh settings change and when would you want to change them?
What is the difference between the model families and how should you decide which one to use?
What is the difference between the model link functions and how should you decide which one to use?
What is a spatial field and when should it be used / not used?
What are IID and when should it be used / not used?
What are priors and what difference will setting them make?

simon-smart88 commented 2 months ago

Explanation of the options for predict_uncertainty

timcdlucas commented 6 days ago

Why do we need an aggregation raster / does it do?

We want to model on rates. 1 degree temperature increases the rate by 0.1 per person, not by 0.1. In this sense it is working as an "offset" in a Poisson GLM. It can also be though of as a weight but not sure if this is confusing

simon-smart88 commented 6 days ago

aggregation is essentially weighting of the pixels in the model, but included in the model at fitting rather than just converting incidence to rate

simon-smart88 / disagapp

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