Handbook of spatial epidemiology
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Bibliographic Information
Handbook of spatial epidemiology
（Handbooks of modern statistical methods / Series editors, Garrett Fitzmaurice）
CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, c2016
- : hbk
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Other editors: Sudipto Banerjee, Robert P. Haining, María Dolores Ugarte
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Handbook of Spatial Epidemiology explains how to model epidemiological problems and improve inference about disease etiology from a geographical perspective. Top epidemiologists, geographers, and statisticians share interdisciplinary viewpoints on analyzing spatial data and space-time variations in disease incidences. These analyses can provide important information that leads to better decision making in public health.
The first part of the book addresses general issues related to epidemiology, GIS, environmental studies, clustering, and ecological analysis. The second part presents basic statistical methods used in spatial epidemiology, including fundamental likelihood principles, Bayesian methods, and testing and nonparametric approaches. With a focus on special methods, the third part describes geostatistical models, splines, quantile regression, focused clustering, mixtures, multivariate methods, and much more. The final part examines special problems and application areas, such as residential history analysis, segregation, health services research, health surveys, infectious disease, veterinary topics, and health surveillance and clustering.
Spatial epidemiology, also known as disease mapping, studies the geographical or spatial distribution of health outcomes. This handbook offers a wide-ranging overview of state-of-the-art approaches to determine the relationships between health and various risk factors, empowering researchers and policy makers to tackle public health problems.
Table of Contents
Introduction. Basic Methods. Special Methods. Special Problems and Applications. Index.
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