Publications by authors named "Dai-Rong Tsai"
Article Synopsis
- * An analysis revealed that while lung adenocarcinoma rates are increasing, lung squamous cell carcinoma rates are declining, especially among women in recent birth cohorts.
- * Geographic hotspots for lung adenocarcinoma are predominantly found in northern, northeastern, and western coastal areas, with rising concerns over pollution contributing to these trends.
BMC Med Res Methodol
October 2022
Article Synopsis
- Mapping disease rates in spacetime helps us understand how they spread and change over time.
- Traditional methods can oversmooth or undersmooth results due to varying population densities, which the new stabilized spatiotemporal kriging method addresses by allowing for different variances.
- When applied to cancer rates in Taiwan, the method highlights high-risk areas for oral cancer in the midwestern and southeastern regions, while breast cancer risks are concentrated in urban areas in the west.
Article Synopsis
- Mapping disease rates is crucial for public health policy, but small populations in local administrative areas (LAAs) can lead to unreliable disease rate measurements; the study proposes a stabilized kriging method to address this instability.
- The new method showed better accuracy in Monte Carlo simulations compared to traditional methods, effectively balancing the error across different LAAs and providing clearer data representation without losing important details.
- The application of this method to oral cancer incidence rates in Taiwan demonstrated its effectiveness in stabilizing data from sparsely populated regions while maintaining accuracy in densely populated areas, highlighting its practical utility for epidemiological research.
