Abstract Background Most Legionnaires' disease in the US and abroad is community-
acquired and believed to be sporadic, or non-outbreak associated. Most patients are …

Spatial epidemiology is the description and analysis of the geographical distribution of
disease. It is more important now than ever, with modern threats such as bio-terrorism …

We consider the problem of detecting and describing space-time interaction in point process
data. We extend existing second-order methods for purely spatial point process data to the …

Interactive spatial data analysis involves the use of software environments that permit the
visualization, exploration and, perhaps, modelling of geographically-referenced data. Such …

This paper examines the spatial point pattern of industrial toxic substances and the
associated environmental justice implications in the San Francisco Bay Area, California …

Statistical Methods for Spatio-Temporal Systems presents current statistical research issues
on spatio-temporal data modeling and will promote advances in research and a greater …

Background Legionella pneumophila is the main cause of a severe pneumonic illness
known as Legionnaires' disease and is a global public health threat. Whole-genome …

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Research into the geography of health has expanded dramatically in recent years, as
witnessed by the appearance of several major texts (see, for example, Cliff and Haggett …

This chapter is concerned with the analysis of data whose basic format is (xi, ti): i= 1,..., n,
where each xi denotes the location and ti the corresponding time of occurrence of an event …