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Applications of extraction mapping in environmental epidemiology
Author(s) -
Lawson A. B.,
Williams F. L. R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780121306
Subject(s) - computer science , spatial epidemiology , data set , data extraction , epidemiology , data mining , set (abstract data type) , spatial analysis , statistics , medline , medicine , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pathology , political science , law , programming language
This paper discusses a new method which allows the extraction of a background disease rate from a data set consisting of spatial co‐ordinates of morbidity or mortality events. We demonstrate its application with two data sets, one based on cancer registry data and the other on death certificates.