Thyroid Cancer Incidence in North Region of Portugal

A Spatial Analysis using Moran's Index

  • Marisa Magno Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; Institute of Electronics and Informatics Engineering of Aveiro (IEETA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Jéssica Rodrigues Cancer Epidemiology Group (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Maria José Bento Cancer Epidemiology Group (CI-IPOP), Portuguese Oncology Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal; Department of Population Studies, Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • Isabel Pereira Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
  • Adelaide Freitas Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and Applications (CIDMA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
DOI: https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i1.28753
Keywords: Disease mapping, Moran’s I, North Region, Spatial Analysis, Thyroid Cancer Incidence
Journal of Statistics in Health Decision, 2022 Special Issue, 4th Statistics on Health Decision Making: Real Word Data
Published
2022-07-20
How to Cite
Magno, M., Rodrigues, J., Bento, M., Pereira, I., & Freitas, A. (2022). Thyroid Cancer Incidence in North Region of Portugal. Journal of Statistics on Health Decision, 4(1), 36-38. https://doi.org/10.34624/jshd.v4i1.28753
Issue
Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Special Issue - Statistics on Health Decision Making: Real World Data
Section
Extended Abstract

Copyright (c) 2022 Marisa Magno, Jéssica Rodrigues, Maria José Bento, Isabel Pereira, Adelaide Freitas

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