Geographical Variation of Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Manitoba, Canada

Geographical Variation of Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Manitoba, Canada

We aimed to study the geographic variation in the incidence of COPD. We used health survey data (weighted to the population level) to identify 56,944 cases of COPD in Manitoba, Canada from 2001 to 2010. We used five cluster detection procedures, circular spatial scan statistic (CSS), flexible spat...

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Main Authors: Mahmoud Torabi, Katie Galloway
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2014-07-01
Series:ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Subjects:
bayesian computation
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
geographic epidemiology
prediction
random effects
spatial cluster detection
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/3/3/1039

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