st: Spatial autocorrelation in logistic regression

[Dick Campbell <dcamp@uic.edu>]

I am doing work in which I have a binary outcome (late stage diagnosis of 
breast cancer)
and a number of variables at the level of the census tract. It is common 
practice in
epidemiology to use aggregate measures of this kind, in addition to 
person-level data,
to model binary outcomes, however I have not seen any attempt to correct 
for spatial
auto-correlation in that literature. For continuous outcomes, doing so has 
become a fairly straight forward
task, but a search of both Stata space and more generally has not turned up 
any software
for the logistic case. I am new to this, and could easily have missed 
something, but could
anyone direct me to either published work of software resources?

Richard T. Campbell
Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
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