Visualizing statistical significance of disease clusters using cartograms.
Barry J KronenfeldDavid W S WongPublished in: International journal of health geographics (2017)
The proposed geovisual analytics approach enables intuitive visual assessment of statistical significance of arbitrarily defined regions on a cartogram. Our research prompts a broader discussion of the role of geovisual exploratory analyses in disease mapping and the appropriate framework for visually assessing the statistical significance of spatial clusters.