The effects of local street network characteristics on the positional accuracy of automated geocoding for geographic health studies

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zimmerman, Dale L ^a   Li, Jie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IOWA; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 77949450026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-10     Document Type: Article

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