Analysis of geographical disparities in temporal trends of health outcomes using space-time joinpoint regression

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-85

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial kriging; Boundary analysis; Cancer; Cluster analysis; Late stage diagnosis; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; KRIGING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TREND ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION;

FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883049406     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.03.002     Document Type: Article

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