Comparing residence-based to actual path-based methods for defining adolescents' environmental exposures using granular spatial data.
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SUBMITTER: Culyba AJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5807191 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
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Comparing residence-based to actual path-based methods for defining adolescents' environmental exposures using granular spatial data.
Culyba Alison J AJ Guo Wensheng W Branas Charles C CC Miller Elizabeth E Wiebe Douglas J DJ
Health & place 20171201
This paper uses data from a population-based case control study of daily activities and assault injury to examine residence-based versus actual path-based approaches to measuring environmental exposures that pose risks for violence among adolescents. Defining environmental exposures based on participant home address resulted in significant misclassification compared to gold standard daily travel path measures. Dividing participant daily travel paths into origin-destination segments, we explore a ...[more]
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