Geographical Epidemiology

John F. Bithell
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John F. Bithell: University of Oxford, Department of Statistics

Chapter II.8 in Handbook of Epidemiology, 2005, pp 859-890 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Although, at first sight, geographical epidemiology may appear to differ substantially from other areas of epidemiology, it has many features in common. In particular, a major objective of epidemiology — to infer aetiological relationships from observed associations — applies also in geographical studies. The distinctive characteristic is of course that geographical location is an important explanatory variable, either because it reflects an environmentally determined element of risk or because people with similar risk attributes live together, so that risk varies from place to place. The two-dimensional nature of geographical location means that the standard statistical techniques for handling sets of essentially univariate variables need to be augmented by more sophisticated methods.

Keywords: Areal Data; Childhood Leukaemia; Residual Deviance; Nuclear Installation; Royal Statistical Society Series (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-26577-1_22

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