A geostatistical approach to linking geographically aggregated data from different sources

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 115-135

  Gotway, Carol A ^a   Young, Linda J ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Change of support; Disaggregation; Ecological inference; Generalized estimating equations; Modifiable areal unit problem

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147202062     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186007X179257     Document Type: Article

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