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- Introduction
- Environmental epidemiology
- Measuring exposure
- What is GIS?
- Types of geo-referenced data
- Using GIS to define exposure
- Area-based exposure
- Using area-based exposure measures
- Example-social disadvantage and heart diseas
- Modeling area-based data
- IHD rates by age and gender
- Effects of social diadvantage
- Some technical details
- Sensitivity to moddling method
- Some final remarks about area-based analysis
- Distance-based exposure
- Childhood cancer and petrochmical plants
- Example-constructing an exposure surface
- Closer look at the exposure surface
- Other uses of GIS in environmental epidemiology
- Example-lung cancer in proximity to military base
- Raw data can be hard to interpret
- Spatial smoothing
- Example-geographical variation in allergic reponse
- More on geoadditive modeling
- Searching for clusters
- Conclutions
Topics Covered
- Introduction to GIS and its role in environmental epidemiology
- Ways that GIS can be used to quantify environmental exposures
- Statistical methods for analyzing spatial data
- Examples where GIS has played a useful role
Talk Citation
Ryan, L. (2007, October 1). GIS and spatial statistics [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved October 8, 2024, from https://doi.org/10.69645/PPIE7773.Export Citation (RIS)
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Financial Disclosures
- Prof. Louise Ryan has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.