Carrat F, Valleron A J
Unité de Recherches Biomathématiques et Biostatistiques, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, Paris, France.
Am J Epidemiol. 1992 Jun 1;135(11):1293-300. doi: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116236.
This paper presents the application of a technique from the earth sciences, the "kriging" method, to the field of geographic epidemiology. Both the principles of the method and the basic equations are given. A key advantage of the method is that it relies on an analysis of the spatial variability of the data and allows the representation of the variable under study as a continuous process throughout a country. Application of the kriging method to the geographic distribution of an epidemic of influenza-like illness in France is discussed.
本文介绍了地球科学领域的一种技术——“克里金法”在地理流行病学中的应用。文中给出了该方法的原理及基本方程。该方法的一个关键优势在于，它依赖于对数据空间变异性的分析，并能够将所研究的变量表示为一个贯穿全国的连续过程。文中还讨论了克里金法在法国流感样疾病疫情地理分布中的应用。
