Interactive spatial data analysis in medical geography
Interactive spatial data analysis in medical geography
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DOI：
10.1016/0277-9536(95)00183-2
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发表时间：
1996-03-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Bailey, TC
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作者：
Gatrell, AC;Bailey, TC
交互式空间数据分析涉及使用软件环境，这些环境允许对地理参照的数据进行可视化、探索，或许还可以建立模型。这种系统在流行病学研究中具有明显的价值，既有环境性质的，也有地理性质的。在各种平台和操作系统上可用的此类软件环境的数量越来越多。本文考虑了专有的地理信息系统ARC/INFO在空间分析方面的使用，展示了地理流行病学家如何利用可以添加到其中的空间分析工具；这些工具包括那些对可疑污染源周围可能上升的疾病发病率进行建模的工具。本文还回顾了S-Plus和XLISPSTAT等统计程序设计环境的使用，这些程序设计环境可以增加空间分析功能或库。还着重介绍了INFO-MAP系统的使用，该系统旨在帮助教授交互式空间数据分析。各种软件环境的说明涉及以下实例：英国兰开夏郡部分地区的儿童白血病聚集性；乌干达的Burkitt淋巴瘤；兰开夏郡的喉癌；以及新西兰奥克兰的儿童死亡率。
Interactive spatial data analysis involves the use of software environments that permit the visualization, exploration and, perhaps, modelling of geographically-referenced data. Such systems are of obvious value in epidemiological research, both of an environmental and geographical nature. There is an increasing number of such software environments available on a variety of platforms and operating systems. This paper considers the use of the proprietary Geographical Information System, ARC/INFO, in a spatial analysis context, showing how the spatial analytic tools that may be added to it can be exploited by geographical epidemiologists; such tools include those for modelling possible raised incidence of disease around suspected sources of pollution. The paper also reviews the use of systems such as S-Plus and XLISP-STAT, Statistical programming environments to which spatial analysis functions or libraries may be added. The use of INFO-MAP, a system designed to aid in the teaching of interactive spatial data analysis, is also highlighted. The various software environments are illustrated with reference to examples concerned with: clustering of childhood leukaemia in part of Lancashire, England; Burkitt's lymphoma in Uganda; larynx cancer in Lancashire; and childhood mortality in Auckland, New Zealand.