Disease Mapping and Risk Assessment for Public Health

Andrew B. Lawson is a professor of biostatistics and eminent scholar in the Division of Biostatistics and Epidemiology in the College of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is an ASA fellow and an advisor in disease mapping and risk assessment for the World Health Organization. Dr. Lawson has published over 100 journal papers and eight books and is the founding editor of Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. He received a PhD in spatial statistics from the University of St. Andrews. His research interests include the analysis of clustered disease maps, spatial and spatio-temporal disease surveillance, nutritional measurement error, and Bayesian latent variable and SEM modeling.

• Partial table of contents: DISEASE MAPPING. Disease Mapping and Its Uses. Disease Mapping with Hidden Structures Using Mixture Models. CLUSTERING OF DISEASE. Inference for Extremes in Disease Mapping. Edge Effects in Disease Mapping. Empirical Studies of Cluster DetectionDifferent Cluster Tests in Application to German Cancer Maps. ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS. Introduction to Spatial Models in Ecological Analysis. Multilevel Modelling of Area-Based Health Data. RISK ASSESSMENT FOR PUTATIVE SOURCES OF HAZARD. A Review of Modelling Approaches in Health Risk Assessment around Putative Sources. Lung Cancer Near Point Emission Sources. PUBLIC HEALTH APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES. Environmental Epidemiology, Public Health Advocacy and Policy. The Character and the Public Health Implications of Ecological Analyses. Estimating the Presence and the Degree of Heterogeneity of Disease Rates. Ecological Regression with Errors in Covariates: An Application. Lung Cancer Mortality in Women in Germany 1995: A Case Study in Disease Mapping. Appendix. Index.

"…full of rich ideas and methods that are useful..." (Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, April 2005) "...sure to be an essential reference for anyone working in this area" (ISCB Newsletter, December 2000)