Sentence examples for geographic measures from inspiring English sources
Basin-scale geographic measures were compiled using the Environmental Systems Research Institute's (ESRI) Arc Info Workstation geographic information system (GIS).
The ARIA+ classification is a purely geographic measure that considers road distance measurements from localities, and is a measure of accessibility and remoteness.
The geographic measure of remoteness (ARIA+) based on accessibility to service centres along road networks was also used.
22 23 Several recent studies also used store density within a defined geographic area per 100 000 people as the geographic measure of interest.
This holds true for spatial epidemiology, where distance is often used as a proxy for exposure to environmental pollutants, or some other geographic measure is used, for example, plume modeling (Nyberg et al. 2000).
The address of usual residence at CRC diagnosis was grouped according to their level of geographic remoteness using the Australian Standard Geographical Classification Remoteness Index [ 26], which is a purely geographic measure of remoteness based on road distances from population centers to various levels of service provision (see Table 1 for categories).
Topography, soils, and distance and geographic accessibility measures were derived for sample farms through a GIS as well as qualitative assessments from household surveys.
The creation of conductance matrices from grid data, their manipulation, and the calculation of geographic distance measures were supported by functions in gdistance [47].
In particular, the accuracy of geographic exposure measures could be improved by incorporating other frequently visited locations (Lovasi et al. 2012b).
After allowing for geographic location, measures of low socioeconomic status are associated with higher salt intake, indicating a higher risk of hypertension and CVD.
Census socioeconomic variables corresponding to the tract of patients' addresses at diagnosis are available in the linked SEER-Medicare data; more detailed geographic level measures are not available.
