Geographic bias related to geocoding in epidemiologic studies

BACKGROUND: This article describes geographic bias in GIS analyses with unrepresentative data owing to missing geocodes, using as an example a spatial analysis of prostate cancer incidence among whites and African Americans in Virginia, 1990–1999. Statistical tests for clustering were performed and...

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Main Authors: Oliver, M Norman, Matthews, Kevin A, Siadaty, Mir, Hauck, Fern R, Pickle, Linda W
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2005
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1298322/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16281976
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-4-29
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