Accounting for rate instability and spatial patterns in the boundary analysis of cancer mortality maps

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 421-446

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Geostatistical simulation; Mortality rates; Neutral model; Pancreatic cancer; Poisson kriging; Wombling

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CORRELATION; DISEASE INCIDENCE; GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; KRIGING; MAPPING METHOD; MORTALITY; POISSON RATIO; POLYGON; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 55349108226     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0064-6     Document Type: Article

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