Small-scale health-related indicator acquisition using secondary data spatial interpolation

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Meng, Gang ^a   Law, Jane ^a   Thompson, Mary E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SURVEY; INTERPOLATION; KRIGING; NEIGHBORHOOD; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; SELF EVALUATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC SELF EVALUATION; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77957732880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-50     Document Type: Article

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