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

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

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

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International Journal of Health Geographics 2006, 5:32doi: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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