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AUTHOR
A. Pontillo
Population geocoding for healthcare management. Technical challenges and quality issues
The present work aims at describing the main issues related with population geocoding for healthcare management. Some of the available procedures for geocoding multiple addresses are described and an indicator of quality of the geocoded addresses is proposed. As a case study, the geocoding of population addresses of a set of 9 Sicilian Municipalities is described and results deriving from the use of two different methods are compared in terms of quality. Some potential applications of population geocoding in healthcare management are finally discussed.
A software tool via web for the statistical data analysis
The spread of Internet and the growing demand of services from the web users have changed and are still changing the way to organize the work or tthe study. Nowadays, the main part of information and many services are on the web and the software is going toward the same direction: in fact, the use of software implemented via web is ever-increasing, with a client-server logic that enables the "centralized" use of software installed on a server. In this paper we describe the structure and the running of R-php, an environment for statistical analysis, freely accessible and attainable through the World Wide Web, based on the statistical environment R. R-php is based on two modules: a base modul…