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Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics

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Biosurveillance and Biosecurity (BioSecure 2008)

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Studying relationships between environmental factors and infectious diseases is an important topic in public health research. The existing studies have been focused on temporal correlations among environmental risks and infectious disease outbreaks. In this paper, we advocate the importance of spatial data analysis in infectious disease-related environmental analysis. Using data from the Beijing CDC, we have conducted spatial regression analysis to study correlation between Measles occurrences and the following environmental factors: population density and proximities to railways, roads, and water systems. We report some preliminary findings concerning significant spatial autocorrelation identified from our analysis.

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, the University of Arizona, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng & Ping Yan

  2. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Daniel D. Zeng

  3. Beijing Technology and Business University, China

    Su Li

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  1. MIS Department, University of Arizona and Chinese Academy of Sciences, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel Zeng

  2. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  3. US CDC, National Center for Public Health Informatics, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Henry Rolka

  4. University of Washington, Health Sciences Building, 1959 NE Pacific St., WA 98195, Seattle, USA

    Bill Lober

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Zeng, D.D., Yan, P., Li, S. (2008). Spatial Regression-Based Environmental Analysis in Infectious Disease Informatics. In: Zeng, D., Chen, H., Rolka, H., Lober, B. (eds) Biosurveillance and Biosecurity . BioSecure 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89746-0_18

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