LANCE A. WALLER, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his PhD in Operations Research in 1992 from Cornell University. Dr. Waller was named Student Government Professor of the Year in 2003 by the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.CAROL A. GOTWAY, PhD, is a mathematical statistician for the National Center for Environmental Health and an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Biostatistics at Emory University. She received her PhD in Statistics from Iowa State University in 1989. Dr. Gotway was awarded a Distinguished Achievement Medal by the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics and the Environment for her contributions to environmental statistics and is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

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• Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction. 2. Analyzing Public Health Data. 3. Spatial Data. 4. Visualizing Spatial Data. 5. Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns. 6. Spatial Clusters of Health Events: Point Data for Cases and Controls. 7. Spatial Clustering of Health Events: Regional Count Data. 8. Spatial Exposure Data. 9. Linking Spatial Exposure Data to Health Events. References. Author Index. Subject Index.