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Geographic Information Systems, Spatial Analysis, and Data Visualization

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Pickle LW. Usability testing of map designs. Proceedings of the Symposium on the Interface of Computing Science and Statistics. (In Press)

2002

Bell S. Spatial Analysis of Disease - Applications. Bell S. Spatial Analysis of Disease - Applications. In Beam, C. editor. Biostatistical Applications in Cancer Research. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002;151-182.[View PDF]

Brewer C, Pickle LW. Evaluation of methods for classifying epidemiological data on choropleth maps in series. Annals of the Amer Assoc of Geographers 2002;92(4):662-681.

Pickle LW, Heineman E, Ward MH, Nuckols JR, Gumpertz M, Bell S. Applications of GIS to cancer research at the National Cancer Institute. Proceedings of the 2001 ESRI international health geographics conference, Washington DC (URL: http://gis.esri.com/library/userconf/health01/papers/hc01_p01a/hc01_p01a.html ).

Pickle LW, Su Y . Within-state geographic patterns of health insurance coverage and health risk factors in the U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. American Journal of Preventive Medicine 2002;22:75-83.[View PDF]

Pickle LW. Spatial Analysis of Disease. Pickle, LW. Spatial analysis of disease. In: Beam, C. editor. Biostatistical Applications in Cancer Research. Boston: Klewer Academic Publishers 2002;113-150. [View PDF]

2001

Pickle LW, Feuer EJ, Edwards B. Predicting cancer incidence in non-SEER counties. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section of the 2000 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2001;45-52.

2000

Cubbin C, Pickle LW, Fingerhut L. Sociostructural context and the geography of homicide among black and white males in the U.S. American Journal of Public Health 2000;90(4):579-587.

Nandram B, Pickle LW. A Bayesian analysis of trends in U.S. homicide rates. Proceedings of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Sciences of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2000;66-71.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Cognitive research for the design of statistical rate maps. Proceedings of the Survey Research Section of the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 2000;185-91.

Pickle LW. Exploring the spatio-temporal patterns of mortality using mixed effects models. Statistics in Medicine 2000;19:2251-63.

Pickle LW. Mapping mortality data in the United States. Spatial Epidemiology 2000;240-252.

1999

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH. Application of a weighted head-banging algorithm to mortality data maps. Statistics in Medicine 1999;18:3201-9.

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH. Effects of smoothing mortality data using the weighted head-banging algorithm. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1998 Meeting, Dallas, TX 1999;43-51.

Nandram B, Sedransk J, Pickle LW. Bayesian analysis of mortality rates for U.S. Health Service Areas. Sankhya 1999;Series B, 61(1):145-165.

Pickle LW, Gillum R. Geographic variation in cardiovascular disease mortality in U.S. blacks and whites. Journal of the National Medical Association 1999;91(10):545-556.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Exploring spatial patterns of mortality: The new Atlas of United States Mortality. Statistics in Medicine 1999;18:3211-20.

1998

Kulldorff M, Athas WF, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Key CR. Evaluating cluster alarms: A space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos. American Journal of Public Health 1998;88:1377-1380.

MacEachren AM, Boscoe F, Haug D, Pickle LW. Geographic visualization: Designing manipulable maps for exploring temporally varying georeferenced statistics. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization, Research Triangle Park, NC 1998;87-94.

MacEachren AM, Brewer CA, Pickle LW. Visualizing georeferenced data: Representing reliability in health statistics. Environment and Planning 1998;30:1547-1561.

MacEachren AM, Polsky C, Haug D, Brown D, Boscoe F, Beedasy J, Pickle LW, Marrara M. Visualizing spatial relationships among health, environmental, and demographic statistics: Interface design issues. Proceedings of the 18th International Cartographic Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 1997 1998;880-887.

1997

Brewer CA, MacEachren AM, Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Mapping mortality: Evaluating color schemes for choropleth maps. Annals of the Amer Assoc of Geographers 1997;87(3):411-438.

Brewer CA, MacEachren AM, Pickle LW. Choice of colors for the new NCHS mortality atlas. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Tampa FL, Feb. 14, 1995 1997;14-20.

Kulldorff M, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Freedman L. Breast cancer clusters in the northeastern United States: A geographical analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology 1997;146:161-170.

Mungiole M, Pickle LW, Simonson KH, White AA. Application of a weighted headbanging algorithm to mortality data maps. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section of the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association 1997;45-49.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Mungiole M, White AA. Design of the new U.S. mortality atlas. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health, Tampa FL, Feb. 14, 1995 1997;4-12.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Gillum R. Geographic variation in stroke mortality in blacks and whites in the United States. Stroke 1997;28:1639-47.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Analysis of mapped mortality data by mixed effects models. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1996 Meeting, Chicago, IL 1997;227-232.

Pickle LW, White AA, Mungiole M, Jones GK. Atlas of United States Mortality. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1996 Meeting, Chicago, IL 1997;40-44.

1996

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. A cognitive subtask model of statistical map reading. Visual Cognition 1996;3:165-190.

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. The new cognitive perspective in statistical map reading. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1995 Meeting, Orlando, FL 1996;4-7.

Jones GK, Pickle LW, Mungiole M. The use of the SAS programming language and procedures to model and process data used in creating the new U.S. Mortality Atlas. Proceedings of the 21st Annual SAS Users’ Group International Conference 1996;1074-1079.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Statistical analysis and graphical design for the new U.S. mortality atlas. Proceedings of the Biometrics Section, American Statistical Association 1995 Meeting, Orlando, FL 1996;573-8.

Pickle LW, Mungiole M, Jones GK, White AA. Book. Atlas of United States Mortality 1996.

1995

MacEachren A, Brewer CA, Pickle LW. Mapping health statistics: Representing data reliability. Proceedings of the 17th International Cartographic Association Conference, Barcelona, Spain, Sept. 11, 1995 1995;311-9.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. Cognitive Aspects of Statistical Mapping. NCHS Working Paper Series Report, No. 18, 1995.

Pickle LW, White AA. Effect of the choice of age-adjustment method on maps of death rates. Statistics in Medicine 1995;14:615-627.

White AA, Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Croner CM, Wilson BF. Map design preferences associated with professional discipline. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1994 Meeting, Toronto, Canada 1995;54-59.

1994

Herrmann DJ, Kerwin J, Pickle LW, Croner CM, White AA, Jobe JB, Jones GK. Cognitive processes in statistical map reading. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1993 Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1994;51-54.

Herrmann DJ, Pickle LW. A cognitive subtask model of statistical map reading. NCHS Working Paper Series Report, No. 18, 1994;No. 11.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ, Kerwin J, Croner CM, White AA. The impact of statistical graphic design on interpretation of disease rate maps. Proceedings of the Statistical Graphics Section, American Statistical Association 1993 Meeting, San Francisco, CA 1994;111-116.

Pickle LW, Herrmann DJ. The process of reading statistical maps: The effect of color. Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter 1994;5(1):1,12-16.

1993

Carr DB, Pickle LW. Topics in scientific visualization: Plot production issues and details. Statistical Computing and Statistical Graphics Newsletter 1993;4(2):16-20.

Lewandowsky S, Herrmann DJ, Behrens JT, Li S, Pickle LW, Jobe JB. Perception of clusters in statistical maps. Appl Cog Psych 1993;7:533-551.

1992

Croner CM, Pickle LW, Wolf DR, White AA. A GIS approach to hypothesis generation in epidemiology. Proceedings of the American Congress on Surveys and Mapping 1992;275-283.

1990

Pickle LW, Mason TJ, Howard N, Hoover R, Fraumeni JF. Book. Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality among Nonwhites, 1950-1980 1990.

1987

Pickle LW, Mason TJ, Howard N, Hoover R, Fraumeni JF. Book. Atlas of U.S. Cancer Mortality among Whites, 1950-1980 1987.

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