The Influence of Disease Mapping Methods on Spatial Patterns and Neighborhood Characteristics for Health Risk
Description:
This thesis addresses three interrelated challenges of disease mapping and contributes a new approach for improving visualization of disease burdens to enhance disease surveillance systems. First, it determines an appropriate threshold choice (smoothing parameter) for the adaptive kernel density estimation (KDE) in disease mapping. The results show that the appropriate threshold value depends on the characteristics of data, and bandwidth selector algorithms can be used to guide such decisions a…
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Date:
December 2017
Creator:
Ruckthongsook, Warangkana