New Publication in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

I co-authored an article in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health entitled “Spatial Heterogeneity in Positional Errors: A Comparison of Two Residential Geocoding Efforts in the Agricultural Health Study”, which is included in the Special Issue Spatial Data Uncertainty in Public Health Research. The article identifies areas with positional error in residential addresses between two geocoding efforts compared to Geographic Positioning System recordings in the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective cancer cohort of licensed pesticide applicators and their spouses in Iowa and North Carolina. My contribution was the data visualization and spatial analysis of the positional error such as a weighted spatial density estimation of the positional error to identify areas of significant improvement in positional accuracy between geocoding efforts while protecting personally identifiable information.