The construction and use of the electric atlas of cancer mortality and incidence in Taiwan

Taiwan Journal of Public Health

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 227-236

  Liaw, Yung Po ^a   Chen, Chien Jen ^b   Lee, Wen Chung ^b   Hsu, Shu Yi ^a  

^a CHUNG SHAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Electric atlas; Geographic information system; Imputed Poisson trend surface; Incidence; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BIBLIOGRAPHIC DATABASE; BIRTH RATE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COMPUTER PROGRAM; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK FACTOR; SOIL; TAIWAN; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0346252199     PISSN: 10232141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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