Spatial Epidemiology

On this page I collect together various papers, datasets and software that are related to the analysis of spatial epidemiological data.

Papers:

• Wakefield, J. (2008). Ecologic studies revisited. To appear Annual Review of Public Health 29, 75-90. annrev08.pdf
• Wakefield, J. and Haneuse, S. (2008). Overcoming ecological bias using the two-phase study design. American Journal of Epidemiology Published online February 12th, 2008. wakefieldhaneuseAJE.pdf
• Haneuse, S. and Wakefield, J. (2008). The combination of ecological and case-control data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 70, 73-93 haneusewakefieldRSSB.pdf.
• Glynn, A., Wakefield, J., Handcock, M. and Richardson, T.S. (2008). Alleviating linear ecological bias and optimal design with subsample data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 171, 179-202. glynnetalRSSA.pdf.
• Elliott, P., Shaddick, G., Wakefield, J., de Hoogh, C. and Briggs, D.J. (2007). Long-term associations of outdoor air pollution with mortality in Great Britain. Thorax, 62, 1088-1094. thorax2007.pdf
• Haneuse, S. and Wakefield, J. (2007). Geographic-based ecological correlation studies using supplemental case-control data. To appear Statistics in Medicine.
• Wakefield, J. (2007) Geographical disease risk. To appear Encycloperdia of Risk.
• Salway, R. and Wakefield, J. (2007). A hybrid model for reducing ecological bias. To appear in Biostatistics. Paper can be found here.
• Haneuse, S., Wakefield, J. and Sheppard, L. (2007). The interpretation of exposure effect estimates in chronic air pollution studies. To appear in Statistics in Medicine. Paper can be found here.
• Haneuse, S. and Wakefield, J. (2007). Hierarchical models for combining ecological and case-control data. Biometrics, 63, 128-136. Paper can be found here.
• Wakefield, J. (2007). Disease mapping and spatial regression with count data. Biostatistics, 8, 158-183. Paper can be found here.
• Gordian, M.E., Haneuse, S. and Wakefield, J. (2006). An investigation of the association between traffic exposure and the diagnosis of asthma. Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, 16, 49-55.
• Wakefield, J. and Shaddick, G. (2006). Health-exposure modelling and the ecological fallacy. Biostatistics, 7, 438-455. Paper can be found here.
• Dabney, A. and Wakefield, J.C. (2005). Issues in the mapping of two diseases. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 14, 83-112. Paper is here.
• Salway, R. and Wakefield, J.C. (2005). Sources of bias in ecological studies of non-rare events. Environmental and Ecological Statistics ,321-347. Paper can be found here.

Data:

• Alaska Data (csv), Alaska Documentation(doc). A fuller description of the data can be found at: Gordian, M.E., Haneuse, S. and Wakefield, J. (2006). An investigation of the association between traffic exposure and the diagnosis of asthma.
• Asthma Data, Data Description, Illustrative analysis.
• Breast Cancer Data, Data Description, Illustrative analysis.
• Breast Cancer and Magnetic Fields Data, Data Description, Illustrative analysis.
• Fertility Data can be found here.
• Lung Cancer in Pennsylvania can be found here.
• Lung Cancer in Washington can be found here.
• Lung Cancer Mortality in Ohio can be found here.
• Pancreatic Cancer can be found here.
• Radon and Lung Cancer can be found here.
• Scottish Lip Cancer here.
  
  

Software:

• R functions for empirical Bayes (non-spatial) smoothing and drawing Scottish polygons in R. (code)

This web site is under construction, please contact me at
jonno@u.washington.edu
if you have problems accessing or using any of the above.

Last updated: May 30th, 2008.