MAUP sensitivity analysis of ecological bias in health studies

GeoJournal

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-153

  Swift, Andrew ^a   Liu, Lin ^a,b   Uber, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Bias; GIS; MAUP

Indexed keywords

BIAS; CORRELATION STATISTICS; DOSE-RESPONSE MODELING; EXPOSURE CONCENTRATION; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; MAUP; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

AGGLOMERATION; AUTOCORRELATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY;

AUTOCORRELATION; CORRELATION; GIS; HEALTH IMPACT; PATHOGEN; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SPATIAL DATA; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; ZONING;

EID: 84897848113     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-013-9504-z     Document Type: Article

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