Geostatistical analysis of disease data: Visualization and propagation of spatial uncertainty in cancer mortality risk using Poisson kriging and p-field simulation

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KRIGING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PANCREAS CANCER; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOPOGRAPHY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DENSITY; RISK; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 33644636624     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-7     Document Type: Article

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