Combining area-based and individual-level data in the geostatistical mapping of late-stage cancer incidence

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-71

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial kriging; Breast cancer; Census tract; Indicator semivariogram; Kernel density estimator; Michigan

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 73049089031     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2009.07.001     Document Type: Article

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