Reducing MAUP bias of correlation statistics between water quality and GI illness

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 134-148

  Swift, Andrew ^a   Liu, Lin ^a   Uber, James ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b University of Cincinnati   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Drinking water; EPANET; Gastrointestinal; GI; GIS; Hydraulic modeling; MAUP

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; HYDRAULICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICS; WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS; WATER QUALITY;

DRINKING WATER QUALITY; HYDRAULIC MODELING; MODIFIABLE AREA UNIT PROBLEM (MAUP);

POTABLE WATER;

CORRELATION; DISEASE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP; DRINKING WATER; GIS; MODELING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 39549088300     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2008.01.002     Document Type: Article

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