Visualizing statistical significance of disease clusters using cartograms

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Kronenfeld, Barry J ^a   Wong, David W S ^b  

^a EASTERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartograms; Density equalizing maps; Disease mapping; Geovisual analytics; Scan statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; CARTOGRAM; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 85019224781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-017-0093-9     Document Type: Article

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