Geneva, february 13 - 17, 2006

The short course is a practical introduction to a suite of geostatistical methods specifically designed for the joint analysis of exposure and health data.

Participants will learn how to

• analyse the spatial and temporal distributions of data using statistical and geostatistical tools,
• detect local clusters of pathologies and outliers of health outcomes,
• estimate and map disease risk from health data,
• perform spatial interpolation and stochastic modeling of exposure data,
• quantify uncertainty linked to these estimations and modeling,
• study and visualize relationships between exposure and health data in space.

Lectures will alternate with analysis of real environmental and health data in exercises, using a space-time information system (STIS developed by TerraSeer) and a geostatistical modeling software.

Last update: 12/20/2005 by Hélène Demougeot-Renard.