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Case-control geographic clustering for residential histories accounting for risk factors and covariates

Geoffrey M Jacquez1,2*, Jaymie R Meliker1,2, Gillian A AvRuskin1, Pierre Goovaerts1, Andy Kaufmann1, Mark L Wilson2 and Jerome Nriagu2

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1 BioMedware, 516 North State Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-1236, USA

2 The University of Michigan, School of Public Health, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

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International Journal of Health Geographics 2006, 5:32 doi:10.1186/1476-072X-5-32

Published: 3 August 2006

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Additional File 1:

Animation of local clustering of cases at k = 7 accounting for smoking, gender, age, race and education. Controls indicated with a "+", cases by circles. Blue is a not significant local Q-statistic for that case, yellow p < 0.05, orange p < 0.01, Red p < 0.001.

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Additional File 2:

Animation of focused clustering about business address histories at k = 8. Industries are indicated by triangles, controls by a "+", cases by circles. Triangles are color-coded based on statistical significance after covariate adjustment. Green is not significant, yellow p < 0.05, orange p < 0.01, Red p < 0.001.

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