Statistical methods in spatial epidemiology

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Authors Andrew B. Lawson

Publication date 4 November 2001

Published in Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

disease mappingecological analysisincidence of diseasespatial distributionsurveillance

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to statistics (62-02) Inference from spatial processes (62M30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Epidemiology (92D30)

Review text

This book is about the analysis of spatial distributions of the incidence of diseases. It is to a large extent a review of recent research work, and its target audience is expected to have a solid statistical background. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe core of the book is divided into two parts. The first, ``The nature of spatial epidemiology, presents fundamentals such as definitions, terminology, scales of measurement, geographical representation and mapping, and basic models, including likelihood-based and Bayesian approaches. This first part concludes with a chapter on exploratory approaches, parametric inference, and a discussion of edge effects.NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThe second part, ``Important problems in spatial epidemiology, considers disease clustering and putative sources of hazard on small scales and then, on large scales, disease mapping and surveillance. The two last chapters of the book deal with ecological analysis and infectious disease modelling. Finally, in five appendices, Monte Carlo methods are reviewed, a glossary of estimators presented, and spatial software discussed.

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