Part 3 Neutral models This is the third in a series on spatial autocorrelation and clusters of health events. The first part presented a framework for analyzing disease clusters that builds on the principles of strong inference. Strong inference involves enumeration...
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Part 2: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 24, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Part 2 Sources of Spatial Autocorrelation Summary: This blog presents several of the sources of spatial autocorrelation in health event data. Many of these could plausibly lead to clusters of health events, others (such as interpolation autocorrelation) may act...
Part 1: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 15, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
Part 1 Strong Inference The Centers for Disease Control as well as state and local health agencies use information on clusters of health events to respond to cluster allegations brought forward by a concerned public; identify impacted local populations (where are...
Directions Magazine: Geocoding Comes to the Forefront
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 4, 2012 | Article
A report from the First International Geospatial Geocoding Conference (IGGC) by Daniel W. Goldberg and Geoffrey M. Jacquez provides an overview of the intensive 2-day information sharing event attended by geocoding users, developers, scientists and researchers.
The First International Geospatial Geocoding Conference (Redlands, California – Dec 6-7, 2011)
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Dec 20, 2011 | Article
By Geoffrey M. Jacquez, PhD (BioMedware) and Daniel Goldberg, PhD (University of Southern California) This blog provides a quick take on the First International Geospatial Geocoding Conference. I am pleased to write this blog with Dan Goldberg, conference...
The small numbers problem Part 3: Diagnostics for the small numbers problem
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Nov 14, 2011 | Learn with BioMedware
To follow along with the analyses in this blog, download and install a trial version of SpaceStat here. An earlier blog defined the small numbers problem and illustrated that rates calculated with small denominators (e.g. small at-risk populations) have high variance...
Report from the NASA Public Health Program Review
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 26, 2011 | Article
The 2011 NASA Public Health Program Review was held September 14-16 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. This is an annual event where Principal Investigators of projects funded by the NASA Public Health Program are invited to present the status and results of their work. NASA’s...
Announcing Our Membership in Esri’s Business Partner Network and the Release of SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase File Format Integration
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2011 | News
I am very excited by our release of SpaceStat 3, which links BioMedware to Esri technology using the geodatabase file format and is an important step towards addressing unmet needs in data access and geohealth analysis techniques. This is very timely, as...
A Vision for Geohealth Analysis, and Geohealth Solutions in SpaceStat
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Aug 3, 2011 | Article
Others have blogged on the directions for Esri technology, the emerging role of GIS-in-the-cloud, crowd-sourcing data, and the potentials for social networking in geohealth. I attended the recent Esri International User Conference (UC) and realized that,...
vacciNATION: Improving the nation’s health through health communication, social networks and gaming?
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | May 27, 2011 | Article
NOTE: vacciNATION is currently running with data from the 2012 season. This blog introduces an app BioMedware developed in response to CDC’s Flu App Challenge. This challenge calls for an innovative use of technology to raise awareness of influenza and educate...