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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"spatial scan statistics"”.
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The Geography of Farmworker Health: A Mixed-Method Exploratory Analysis of Chronic Disease
… utilized two quantitative techniques. The first, spatial scan statistics, were used to measure geographic variations in farmworker disease clusters, while the second technique featured the delineation of healthcare service areas. Qualitative techniques featured interviews with key informants and …
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Spatial Patterns and Correlates of Lower Respiratory Tract Illnesses in Children from Drakenstein, Western Cape
… countries. However, little is known about the spatial variation of LRTIs especially in developing countries such as South Africa. This study aimed to explore and map the spatial dependence and clustering of childhood pneumonia and wheeze and to identify factors associated with these diseases in …
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Super-Utilization: The New Perfect Storm of Health Reform
… of readmission rates using descriptive statistics; and 3) to assess the effect of the number of readmissions by beneficiaries with one, two, three, and four or more readmissions per year on overall readmission rates using a quasi-experimental approach to linear regression. The second …
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Modeling Spatial Distribution and Habitat Associations for Juvenile Pallid Sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus albus) in the Missouri River
… sample size), it is often difficult to evaluate spatial distribution of groups of fish over long time periods (>3 years). Standardized random sampling, which relies on a variety of gear types including trammel nets, otter trawls, gillnets and setlines, has been conducted in the reach of the …
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Rebuilding Coastal Mississippi Following Hurricane Katrina: A Spatial and Temporal Analysis
… including descriptive and non-parametric statistics, visual multivariate analysis with the VIS-STAMP software package, and the spatial scan statistic SaTScan. The results of these analyses show that recovery is not occurring evenly in space or time across the Gulf Coast. The level and …