Mortality rates in England and Wales display a persistent regional pattern indicating generally poorer health in the North and West. Some of this is simply a reflection of regional differences in the extent of social deprivation which is known to exert a profound influence on health. Part of the...

One method applicable to the examination of spatial point patterns of disease, the calculation of K-functions, is presented. The technique is used to determine the degree of clustering exhibited by the residuals from a spatially referenced logit model constructed to ascertain the factors...

Willingness-to-pay (WTP) responses from dichotomous choice contingent valuation studies are often modeled using logistic regression, from which estimates of mean or median WTP are calculated. However, a great many factors influence an individual's WTP, some of which may be unobserved. Hence, the...