Product Description

This book provides a practical, comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the use of spatial statistics in epidemiology - the study of the incidence and distribution of diseases. Used appropriately, spatial analytical methods in conjunction with GIS and remotely sensed data can provide significant insights into the biological patterns and processes that underlie disease transmission. In turn, these can be used to understand and predict disease prevalence. This user-friendly text brings together the specialised and widely-dispersed literature on spatial analysis to make these methodological tools accessible to epidemiologists for the first time. With its focus is on application rather than theory, Spatial Analysis in Epidemiology includes a wide range of examples taken from both medical (human) and veterinary (animal) disciplines, and describes both infectious diseases and non-infectious conditions. Furthermore, it provides worked examples of methodologies using a single data set from the same disease example throughout, and is structured to follow the logical sequence of description of spatial data, visualisation, exploration, modelling and decision support. This accessible text is aimed at graduate students and researchers dealing with spatial data in the fields of epidemiology (both medical and veterinary), ecology, zoology and parasitology, environmental science, geography and statistics.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #559710 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
This book is successful in concisely presenting the most common methods that graduate students and researchers dealing with spatial data in epidemiology might need to use. It is accessible, reasonably-priced and would be a useful addition to the library of most epidemiologists. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature within the field of spatial epidemiology. (professor Michael Ward, sesquicentennial Chair, The University of Sydney )

Customer Reviews

Easy to understand and quite comprehensive
After trying a few other spatial epidemiology texts, I have finally found one that I understand! Its laid out in a logical manner, and the explanations for different methods actually tell you what they do, and why you would want to use them...other books I have read tend to focus on the statistics and mathematical equations, without actually going into any details about what the methods are for.

This book is ideal for an epidemiologist wishing to use spatial analysis methodologies and goes through all the basic concepts as well as touching upon the more complex methods.