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From picklel@mail.nih.gov Tue Feb 17 08:32:12 2004 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1HGWCuL062576 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:32:12 -0800 Received: from nihhubims3.hub.nih.gov (nihhubims3.hub.nih.gov [128.231.90.113]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.10+UW03.09/8.12.10+UW03.09) with ESMTP id i1HGWABk021543 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:32:11 -0800 Received: by nihhubims3.hub.nih.gov with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:32:10 -0500 Message-ID: <9D7EF737FA4C6F4FBBFC52FC30B836900DFA6E0D@nihexchange7.nih.gov> From: "Pickle, Linda (NIH/NCI)" To: "'waphgis@u.washington.edu'" Subject: book recommendation? Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 11:32:08 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C3F573.9617F30E" X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIIIII, Probability=9%, Report='HTML_FONT_FACE_ODD 0.201, HTML_50_70 0.092, __SANE_MSGID 0, __TO_MALFORMED_2 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __ANY_IMS_MUA 0, EXCHANGE_SERVER 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __IMS_MUA 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART_ALT 0, __EVITE_CTYPE 0, __NEXTPART_ALL 0, __CT 0, __CTYPE_HAS_BOUNDARY 0, __CTYPE_MULTIPART 0, __NEXTPART_NORMAL 0, __IMS_MSGID 0, __TAG_EXISTS_BODY 0, __TAG_EXISTS_META 0, __MIME_HTML 0, __TAG_EXISTS_HTML 0, HTML_FONT_COLOR_BLUE 0.000, __TAG_EXISTS_HEAD 0, __HAS_MSGID 0' This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3F573.9617F30E Content-Type: text/plain Our Branch has a small but growing library of books on GIS and spatial analytic methods appropriate for cancer research. We would like to buy one of the recently published books on GIS & public health. Does anyone have an opinion on either of the books below, especially the level of the text and point of view (epidemiology, geography, statistics)? Cromley & McLafferty: GIS and Public Health, publ in 2002 Melnick & Fleming: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Public Health, publ 2002 any others? Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks....Linda Linda Williams Pickle, Ph.D. Senior Mathematical Statistician National Cancer Institute Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences Surveillance Research Program Statistical Research and Applications Branch Mailing address: 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 504, Bethesda, MD 20892-8317 (NOTE: for overnight delivery, use Rockville, MD 20852) phone: 301-435-7739 fax: 301-480-2046 email: PICKLEL@MAIL.NIH.GOV ------_=_NextPart_001_01C3F573.9617F30E Content-Type: text/html Message

Our Branch has a small but growing library of books on GIS and spatial analytic methods appropriate for cancer research. We would like to buy one of the recently published books on GIS & public health. Does anyone have an opinion on either of the books below, especially the level of the text and point of view (epidemiology, geography, statistics)?

Cromley & McLafferty: GIS and Public Health, publ in 2002

Melnick & Fleming: Introduction to Geographic Information Systems for Public Health, publ 2002

any others?

Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks....Linda

Linda Williams Pickle, Ph.D.
Senior Mathematical Statistician
National Cancer Institute
Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
Surveillance Research Program
Statistical Research and Applications Branch

Mailing address: 6116 Executive Blvd., Suite 504, Bethesda, MD 20892-8317
(NOTE: for overnight delivery, use Rockville, MD 20852)
phone: 301-435-7739
fax: 301-480-2046
email: PICKLEL@MAIL.NIH.GOV

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