Hope this helps,
Scott
----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Campbell <[email protected]>
Date: Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:38 am
Subject: st: Spatial autocorrelation in logistic regression
> 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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>
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