Using geographically weighted regression for environmental justice analysis: Cumulative cancer risks from air toxics in Florida

Social Science Research

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 273-286

  Gilbert, Angela ^a   Chakraborty, Jayajit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Environmental health; Environmental justice; Florida; Geographically weighted regression; Race ethnicity; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78149470829     PISSN: 0049089X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.08.006     Document Type: Article

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