Impact of jittering on raster- and distance-based geostatistical analyses of DHS data

Fine-scale covariate rasters are routinely used in geostatistical models for mapping demographic and health indicators based on household surveys from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program. However, the geostatistical analyses ignore the fact that GPS coordinates in DHS surveys are jitter...

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