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Spatializing Area-Based Measures of Neighborhood Characteristics for Multilevel Regression Analyses: An Areal Median Filtering Approach.

Area-based measures of neighborhood characteristics simply derived from enumeration units (e.g., census tracts or block groups) ignore the potential of spatial spillover effects, and thus incorporating such measures into multilevel regression models may underestimate the neighborhood effects on heal...

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Published in:Journal of Urban Health Vol. 93; no. 3; pp. 551 - 572
Main Authors: Oka, Masayoshi, Wong, David, Wong, David W S
Format: journal article
Published: Springer Nature Jun2016
Subjects:
United States
Neighborhoods
Externalities
Health behavior
Public health
Health status indicators
Residential patterns
Regression analysis
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