Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Neighborhood Sociodemographic Characteristics and Food Stores
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Spatial-temporal modeling of neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics and food stores.
The literature on food stores, neighborhood poverty, and race/ethnicity is mixed and lacks methods of accounting for complex spatial and temporal clustering of food resources. We used quarterly data on supermarket and convenience store locations from Nielsen TDLinx (Nielsen Holdings N.V., New York, New York) spanning 7 years (2006-2012) and census tract-based neighborhood sociodemographic data ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwu250