The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP) in disease mapping

Between October 2021 and March 2022 I worked as a casual research assistant for a small research project named ‘Analysis of biases in aggregated spatial data’. The project was funded by the Centre for Data Science at the Queensland University of Technology. I was fortunate to be part of a large research team which included two chief investigators, two co-investigators, two research assistants, and one external collaborator. My responsibilities in the project included

• Developing a simulation experiment to generate large spatial datasets
• Creating R, bash and AZTools code to carry out the intensive simulation experiment
• Fitting Bayesian spatial models
• Visualizing and interpreting the simulation results
• Helping to create a shiny app to dynamically explore the results
• Preparing a manuscript describing the work for publication in a peer-reviewed journal