A research agenda: Does geocoding positional error matter in health GIS studies?

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 7-16

  Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease clustering; Environmental exposures; Geocoding error; Positional uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GEOCODING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VALIDATION STUDY;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84859212086     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.02.002     Document Type: Article

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