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Part 3: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 31, 2012 | Learn with BioMedware
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...
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...
BioMedware: November 2011 Newsletter
by Susan Hinton | Nov 4, 2011 | News
Announcing SpaceStat 3.5 with Geostatistical Discretization and Deconvolution Our new SpaceStat release expands support for kriging methods by adding discretization and deconvolution, providing the ability to perform kriging from one geography to another. We've...
Interview with Pierre Goovaerts (en français)
by Susan Hinton | Oct 22, 2011 | Article
An Interview with Pierre Goovaerts, Chief Scientist at BioMedware, on the occasion of his plenary address “The Role of GIS, Geostatistics and Cancer Atlases in Medical Geography & Environmental Epidemiology” delivered during the symposium “Environment and Health”....
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...
BioMedware: September 2011 Newsletter
by Susan Hinton | Sep 8, 2011 | News
Announcing SpaceStat 3 with Geodatabase Integration