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Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
Children's Lead Poisoning In The Eastern United States: A Spatial Data Mining Approach, Thaddeus Grace
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The focus of this thesis is to determine whether an association rule mining appraoch could be used to uncover associations between socioeconomic variables and childhood lead poisoning in the eastern Unied States. The association rule analysis was able to discover three prominent variables that were linked with childhood lead toxicity. Counties with high rates of holder housing, high single female head of householders, and a low proportion of Hispanic residents were found to be associated with higher rates of childhood lead poisoning. Geographic information systems (GIS) was utilized to visually illustrate the spatial distribution of each of the three association …