Package that includes a series of functions acting as a wrapper for several disease mapping methods applied to social epidemiology on INLA, as described by Escobar-Hernández et al. (2025). See the website for more information, documentation, and examples.
Installation
You can install the latest development version from GitHub:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("VdaK1NG/INLA.SocialEp")Usage
Check out the Example vignette for a quick start tutorial. If you are interested in how the datasets were simulated, feel free to check the in-depth description at the Simulation Study - Data Creation vignette. For a more in-depth discussion, read and/or take a look at the reference documentation.
Help & Contributing
If you come across a bug, open an issue and include a minimal reproducible example.
License
The INLA.SocialEp package is licensed under the MIT license. Text and images included in this repository, including the INLA.SocialEp logo, are licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license.
Citation
To cite INLA.SocialEp in publications, use:
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is:
@Manual{,
title = {INLA.SocialEp: Implementation of Advanced Social Disease Mapping Techniques in
INLA},
author = {Pablo Escobar-Hernández and Francisco Palmí-Perales and Antonio López-Quílez},
year = {2025},
note = {R package version 1.1, commit 0edbfae61f99d7d65045fd9be9dccfd2327445bc},
url = {https://github.com/VdaK1NG/INLA.SocialEp},
}