A review of spatial methods in epidemiology, 2000-2010

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 33, Issue , 2012, Pages 107-122

  Auchincloss, Amy H ^a   Gebreab, Samson Y ^b   Mair, Christina ^c   Diez Roux, Ana V ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiologic methods; Geographic information systems; Geography; Space time clustering; Spatial distribution

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; CALCULATION; DISTANCE CALCULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERPOLATION; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPATIAL AGGREGATION; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL METHOD; SPATIAL REGRESSION; SPATIAL SMOOTHING;

DEMOGRAPHY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 84861415873     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: 15452093     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-publhealth-031811-124655     Document Type: Review

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