AUTHOR=Fenta Haile Mekonnen , Chen Ding-Geng , Zewotir Temesgen T. , Rad Najmeh Nakhaei TITLE=Spatiotemporal models with confounding effects: application on under-five mortality across four sub-Saharan African countries JOURNAL=Frontiers in Public Health VOLUME=13 YEAR=2025 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2025.1408680 DOI=10.3389/fpubh.2025.1408680 ISSN=2296-2565