A New Application of Spatiotemporal Analysis for Detecting Demographic Variations in AIDS Mortality: An Example from Florida

The purpose of the present study was to characterize, geographically and temporally, the patterns of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) death disparity in 67 Florida jurisdictions, and to determine if the detected trends varied according to age, race, and sex. The space-time scan statistic p...

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Main Authors: Yu-Wen Chiu, Min-Qi Wang, Hung-Yi Chuang, Chiehwen Ed Hsu, Ella T. Nkhoma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2008-11-01
Series:Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1607551X0970018X