Monthly Archives: January 2012

Part 3: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D.

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 … Continue reading →

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Part 2: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D.

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 to … Continue reading →

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Part 1: Spatial Autocorrelation and Clusters of Health Events

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D.

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 … Continue reading →

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Directions Magazine: Geocoding Comes to the Forefront

Posted on January 4, 2012 by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D.

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.

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