A geocomputational process for characterizing the spatial pattern of lung cancer incidence in New Hampshire

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 521-533

  Shi, Xun ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease mapping; Geocomputation; Kernel estimation; Lung cancer; Monte Carlo

Indexed keywords

CANCER; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAPPING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION;

NEW HAMPSHIRE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 69949172011     PISSN: 00045608     EISSN: 14678306     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00045600902931801     Document Type: Article

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