Geostatistical analysis of disease data: visualization and propagation of spatial uncertainty in cancer mortality risk using Poisson kriging and p-field simulation

Additional File 1:

Input data file for poisson_kriging.exe. This dataset follows the Geo-EAS format and includes, for 295 counties of New England, the following information: FIPS code, spatial coordinates of the county geographic centroid, age-adjusted pancreatic cancer mortality rate per 100,000 person-years, and the population at risk for the 1970–1994 period.

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Additional File 2:

Input parameter file for poisson_kriging.exe. This text file includes all the variables and names of input/output files required by the program, as well as the parameters for semivariogram modelling and Poisson kriging.

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Additional File 3:

Executable to generate realizations of the spatial distribution of risk values using p-field simulation.

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Additional File 4:

Input parameter file for pfield.exe. This text file includes all the variables and names of input/output files required by the program, as well as the parameters for the simulation procedure.

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Additional File 5:

Animated display of 200 realizations of the spatial distribution of mortality risk values for pancreatic cancer.

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Additional File 6:

Animated display of 200 realizations of the local cluster analysis of mortality risk values for pancreatic cancer.

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