BACKGROUND Chlamydia continues to be the most prevalent disease in the United States. Effective spatial monitoring of chlamydia incidence is important for successful implementation of control and prevention programs. The objective of this study is to apply Bayesian smoothing and exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) methods to monitor Texas county-level chlamydia incidence rates by examining...

The possibility that homicides can spread from one geographic area to another has been entertained for some time by social scientists, yet systematic efforts to demonstrate the existence, or estimate the strength, of such a diffusion process are just beginning. This paper uses exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) to examine the distribution of homicides in 78 counties in, or around, the St....

This study examines the capability of various optimization algorithms and proposes novel hybrid for more precise prediction open-edge cracks in cantilever beams. The natural frequencies beam with a crack are obtained by modal analysis experimentally validated impact testing. performance Harris hawk (HHO), electrostatic discharge algorithm (ESDA), pathfinder (PFA) Henry gas solubility (HGSO) fro...

This paper introduces the use of exploratory sequential data analysis (ESDA) to detect, quantify and correlate patterns within audit trail data. We describe four sequence analysis techniques and use them to analyse data from 34 students' attempts at an interactive drag and drop task. Using a model sequence of events based on the task's underlying educational design as reference, we employed the...

The purpose of this article is to analyze the dynamic trend of spatial dependence, which is not only contemporary but time-lagged in many socio-economic phenomena. Firstly, we show some of the commonly used exploratory spatial data analysis (ESDA) techniques and we propose other new ones, the exploratory space-time data analysis (ESTDA) that evaluates the instantaneity of spatial dependence. We...

An increase in respiration (RSDA) associated with food ingestion (I) was estimated from routine rates (Rroutine) determined the absence of sealed-chamber methods. Based on regression analyses RSDA I for metazooplankton laboratory, fraction allocated to calculated be 0.10. Likely field (Ifield) derived “basic balanced equations” which parameters such as Rroutine, laboratory-obtained absorption e...

Spatial autocorrelation is a method of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (ESDA). The latter set of methods allow for the study and understanding of the spatial distribution and spatial structure as well as they allow for detecting spatial dependence or autocorrelation in spatial data. More specifically, spatial autocorrelation is the correlation between the values of a single variable that is s...

Measuring the degree and extent of economic globalization is subject to a variety of issues ranging from theoretical conceptualization to the selection of appropriate data. This examination of economic globalization underscores the importance of a geographic perspective that is necessarily situated within a temporal context. International trade data and exploratory spatial data analyses (ESDA) ...