Spatial autocorrelation among automated geocoding errors and its effects on testing for disease clustering

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1025-1036

  Zimmerman, Dale L ^a   Li, Jie ^a   Fang, Xiangming ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated geocoding; Disease clustering; Positional errors; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SIMULATION; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

BIOSTATISTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; IOWA; RURAL HEALTH;

EID: 77950874929     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3836     Document Type: Article

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