Decoupling Distance and Networks: Hybrid Graph Attention-Geostatistical Methods for Spatio-temporal Risk Mapping

arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.08393 (2026)

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Summary. Proposes a hybrid framework that combines graph attention networks with model-based geostatistics to capture both network-structured and distance-based spatial dependence in spatio-temporal disease risk mapping, decoupling the two sources of spatial structure.