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The effects of local street network characteristics on the positional accuracy of automated geocoding for geographic health studies

BACKGROUND: Automated geocoding of patient addresses for the purpose of conducting spatial epidemiologic studies results in positional errors. It is well documented that errors tend to be larger in rural areas than in cities, but possible effects of local characteristics of the street network, such...

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Autores principales: Zimmerman, Dale L, Li, Jie
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2836293/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20158886
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-9-10