Exploratory disease mapping: kriging the spatial risk function from regional count data

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There is considerable interest in the literature on disease mapping to interpolate estimates of disease occurrence or risk of disease from a regional database onto a continuous surface. In addition to many interpolation techniques av...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Berke Olaf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2004-08-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Online Access:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/3/1/18