Application of a weighted head-banging algorithm to mortality data maps

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3201-3209

  Mungiole, Michael ^a,c   Pickle, Linda W ^a   Simonson, Katherine Hansen ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTH STATISTICS   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER STATISTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PROSTATE CANCER; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0033573268     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3201::aid-sim310>3.0.co;2-u     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (10)

1. Lewandowsky, S. and Behrens, J. T. 'Accuracy of cluster detection in mortality maps', in Pickle, L. W. and Herrmann, D. J. (eds), Cognitive Aspects of Statistical Mapping, NCHS Working Paper Series, No. 18, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, 1995.
2. Hansen, K. M. 'Head-banging: robust smoothing in the plane', IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 29, 369-378 (1991).
3. Velleman, P. F. 'Definition and comparison of robust nonlinear data smoothing algorithms', Journal of the American Statistical Association, 75, 609-615 (1980).
4. Jain, A. K. Fundamentals of Digital Image Processing, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1989.
5. Kafadar, K. 'Choosing among two-dimensional smoothers in practice', Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 18, 419-439 (1994).
6. Tukey, J. W. Exploratory Data Analysis, Addison-Wesley, Reading, MA, 1977.
7. Tukey, P. A. and Tukey, J. W. 'Graphical display of data sets in 3 or more dimensions', Barnett, V. (ed.), Interpreting Multivariate Data, Wiley, New York, 1981.
8. Pickle, L. W., Mungiole, M., Jones, G. K. and White, A. A. Atlas of United States Mortality, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland, 1996.
9. Fleiss, J. L. Statistical Methods for Rates and Proportions, Wiley, New York, 1981.
10. Makuc, D. M., Haglund, B., Ingram, D. D. et al. Health Service Areas for the United States, Vital Health Statistics 2(112), National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, MD, 1991.