Studying the association between air pollution and lung cancer incidence in a large metropolitan area using a kernel density function

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Using kernel density function as an urban analysis tool: Investigating the association between nightlight exposure and the incidence of breast cancer in Haifa, Israel

✍ Itai Kloog; Abraham Haim; Boris A. Portnov 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 676 KB

The kernel density (KD) function estimates the intensity of events across a surface by calculating the overall number of cases situated within a given search radius from a target point. To form a continuous surface from individual observations, the KD technique does not require the presence of a par