Spatial epidemiological approaches in disease mapping and analysis
Lai, Poh-Chin
So, Fun-Mun
Chan, Ka-Wing
Containing method descriptions and step-by-step procedures, the "Spatial Epidemiological Approaches in Disease Mapping and Analysis" equips readers with skills to prepare health-related data in the proper format, process these data using relevant functions and software, and display the results as mapped or statistical summaries. Describing the wide range of available methods and key GISconcepts for spatial epidemiology, this book illustrates the utilities of thesoftware using real-world data. Additional topics include geographic data models, address matching, geostatistical analysis, universal kriging, point pattern analysis, kernel density, spatio-temporal display, and disease surveillance.
- ISBN: 978-1-4200-4546-8
- Editorial: CRC Press
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 174
- Fecha Publicación: 08/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés