Using spatial multilevel regression analysis to assess soil type contextual effects on neural tube defects

Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1695-1708

  Ren, Zhoupeng ^a,b   Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Liao, Yilan ^a   Zheng, Xiaoying ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Multilevel analysis; Neural tube birth; Soil type contextual effects; Spatial autocorrelation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATED ERRORS; CONTEXTUAL EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; MULTI-LEVEL ANALYSIS; MULTILEVEL MODEL; NEURAL TUBE BIRTH; NEURAL TUBE DEFECTS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS;

AUTOCORRELATION; DEFECTS; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AUTOCORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH IMPACT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL TYPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; SHANXI;

EID: 84883818245     PISSN: 14363240     EISSN: 14363259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00477-013-0707-0     Document Type: Article

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