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From: "Dick Hoskins" <rhoskins@home.com>
To: <waphgis@u.washington.edu>
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Subject: Re: health data mapping
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:06:44 -0700
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I might be able to host it for nothing.

Let me check.


Dick Hoskins
rhoskins@home.com


----- Original Message -----
From: "Marjorie Roswell" <roswell@umbc.edu>
To: <waphgis@u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: Re: health data mapping


> > I cannot find it
> > again. Any ideas where that may be?
>
> This site has been linked to my Health Geographics page, from the first!
>
>  http://www.essc.psu.edu/~cbrewer/ColorSch/SchHome.html
>
> My page is http://abyan.com/default.asp?PAGE=17F.1
>   or
> http://hello.to/healthgeo/
>
> Sorry about that new pop-up box on my page. They want money, now to
> forward to
>  http://abyan.com/default.asp?PAGE=17F.1
> It used to be free.
>
> I'll probably ante up, because I can't stand pop-up boxes, and I can't
> stand impossoble-to-remember URLs.
>
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Dick Hoskins wrote:
>
> > Linda:  What are Jenks?
> >
> > Everyone else:  I saw a web site (a geography dept?)  that had some
> > materials , maybe a tutorial, on categories and maps, but I cannot find
it
> > again. Any ideas where that may be?
> >
> > Dick Hoskins
> > rhoskins@home.com
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Pickle, Linda (NCI)" <picklel@mail.nih.gov>
> > To: <waphgis@u.washington.edu>
> > Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 5:52 AM
> > Subject: RE: health data mapping
> >
> >
> > > I have been working with Cindy Brewer of Penn State to compare methods
of
> > > creating categories for health rate maps.  Quantiles seem to convey
the
> > > underlying data accurately for all types of questions and even
non-normal
> > > data distributions.  Other methods tested included Jenks and equal
width
> > > intervals (+ 4 others)
> > >
> > > Linda Williams Pickle, Ph.D.
> > > Senior Mathematical Statistician
> > > Statistical Research and Applications Branch
> > > Surveillance Research Program
> > > Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
> > > National Cancer Institute
> > > EPN Room 4103, MSC 7359
> > > 6130 Executive Blvd.
> > > Bethesda, MD 20892
> > > (for overnight delivery, use Rockville, MD 20852)
> > > Branch phone: 301-435-7739
> > > Email: picklel@mail.nih.gov
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rosmaire Kelly [mailto:rosmaire@worldnet.att.net]
> > > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 8:41 PM
> > > To: waphgis@u.washington.edu
> > > Subject: health data mapping
> > >
> > > Are there conventions for creating categories when mapping
> > > health
> > > data?  I am involved in a project to map a variety of health
> > > data in
> > > Ohio at county (and possibly census tract) level, and would
> > > appreciate any information from anyone who has been involved
> > > in this
> > > sort of work.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > >
> > > Rosmarie Kelly
> > > MPH student
> >
>
> _________________________________________________________
>             Marjorie Roswell, Spatial Analyst
> UMBC Center for Health Program Development and Management
> 1000 Hilltop Circle                     Fx: (410)455-6850
> Baltimore, MD 21250                   E: roswell@umbc.edu
> Ph: (410)455-6802    http://umbc.edu/~roswell/mipage.html
> _________________________________________________________
>
>

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