Comparing adaptive and fixed bandwidth-based kernel density estimates in spatial cancer epidemiology
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Comparing adaptive and fixed bandwidth-based kernel density estimates in spatial cancer epidemiology
BACKGROUND Monitoring spatial disease risk (e.g. identifying risk areas) is of great relevance in public health research, especially in cancer epidemiology. A common strategy uses case-control studies and estimates a spatial relative risk function (sRRF) via kernel density estimation (KDE). This study was set up to evaluate the sRRF estimation methods, comparing fixed with adaptive bandwidth-ba...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-015-0005-9