An Analysis of an Incomplete Marked Point Pattern of Heat-Related 911 Calls

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Heaton, Matthew J.; Sain, Stephan R.; Monaghan, Andrew J.; Wilhelmi, Olga V.; Hayden, Mary H.
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University; National Center Atmospheric Research (NCAR) - USA
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0162-1459
• DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.983229
• 发表日期: 2015
• 页码: 123-135
• 关键词: ambulance response calls; urban canopy model; mortality displacement; temperature; climate; stress; HEALTH; matrices; toronto; ontario

摘要

We analyze an incomplete marked point pattern of heat-related 911 calls between the years 2006-2010 in Houston, TX, to primarily investigate conditions that are associated with increased vulnerability to heat-related morbidity and, secondarily, build a statistical model that can be used as a public health tool to predict the volume of 911 calls given a time frame and heat exposure. We model the calls as arising from a nonhomogenous Cox process with unknown intensity measure. By using the kernel convolution construction of a Gaussian process, the intensity surface is modeled using a low-dimensional representation and properly adheres to circular domain constraints. We account for the incomplete observations by marginalizing the joint intensity measure over the domain of the missing marks and also demonstrate model based imputation. We find that spatial regions of high risk for heat-related 911 calls are temporally dynamic with the highest risk occurring in urban areas during the day. We also find that elderly populations have an increased probability of calling 911 with heat-related issues than younger populations. Finally, the age of individuals and hour of the day with the highest intensity of heat-related 911 calls varies by race/ethnicity. Supplementary materials are included with this article.