Erich Seamon

Spatially Varying Climate Importance in United States Agricultural Insurance Claim Severity

Climate relationships with agricultural insurance claims are unlikely to be spatially uniform because crops, hazards, and insurance experience vary geographically. To identify geographic variation in climate predictors of claim severity, we fit six geographically weighted random...

Predictive spatial modeling of sociodemographic risk for COVID-19 mortality

Abstract Background In early 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) rapidly spread across the United States (US), exhibiting significant geographic variability. While several studies have examined the predictive relationships of differing factors on COVID-19, few have look...