The geography of mortality in the Atlanta metropolitan area

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 149-164

  Holt, James B ^a   Lo, C P ^b  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlanta; Geographically weighted regression; GIS; Mortality; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; FORECASTING; POPULATION STATISTICS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR); SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS (SES);

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

GIS; METROPOLITAN AREA; MORTALITY; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA; URBANIZATION;

ATLANTA; GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 39649083814     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2007.08.009     Document Type: Article

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