Advances in modeling disease-environmental relationships: applying thin-plate splines in “big additive models” to predict malaria in the Amhara region of Ethiopia

Justin Davis1, Dawn M Nekorchuk2 and Michael C Wimberly1, (1)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States, (2)University of Oklahoma, Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, Norman, OK, United States