Spatial clustering of the failure to geocode and its implications for the detection of disease clustering

Geocoding a study population as completely as possible is an important data assimilation component of many spatial epidemiologic studies. Unfortunately, complete geocoding is rare in practice. The failure of a substantial proportion of study subjects' addresses to geocode has consequences for s...

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Published in:	Statistics in medicine Vol. 27; no. 21; pp. 4254 - 4266
Main Authors:	Zimmerman, Dale L., Fang, Xiangming, Mazumdar, Soumya
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 20.09.2008 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	Algorithms Cluster Analysis Computer Simulation Disease disease clustering Epidemiologic Methods Epidemiology geocoding Geographic Information Systems Interpolation Simulation spatial cluster detection Carroll County Iowa
ISSN:	0277-6715, 1097-0258
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