Influence of Demographic and Health Survey Point Displacements on Point-in-Polygon Analyses.
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SUBMITTER: Warren JL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4950678 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul
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Influence of Demographic and Health Survey Point Displacements on Point-in-Polygon Analyses.
Warren Joshua L JL Perez-Heydrich Carolina C Burgert Clara R CR Emch Michael E ME
Spatial demography 20150620 2
We use Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data to evaluate the impact of random spatial displacements on analyses that involve assigning covariate values from ancillary areal and point feature data. We introduce a method to determine the maximum probability covariate (MPC), and compare this to the naive covariate (NC) selection method with respect to obtaining the true covariate of interest. The MPC selection method outperforms the NC selection method by increasing the probability that the corr ...[more]
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