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publications since 1982
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all documents and reports since 1964
McCarthy, J.; Benson, W.; Yen, A.; Merrill, D.; Marcus, A.; Gey, F.; Holmes, H.; Quong, C. 1982.
SEEDIS: A Research and Development Project on Social, Economic, Environmental and Demographic Information Systems. Computer Graphics World 5:35-44.
Selvin, S.; Ernster, V. L.; Merrill, D.; Sacks, S.; Holly, E. 1982.
Socioeconomic Status and Cancers of the Larynx, Lung, Esophagus, Gum and Mouth. J. Natl. Cancer Inst. 69: 773-776.
Selvin, S.; Merrill, D.; Sacks, S. 1982.
An Alternative to Ecologic Regression Analysis of Mortality Rates. Amer. J. Epidemiol. 115:617-623.
Selvin, S.; Levin, L.; Merrill, D.; Winkelstein, W., Jr. 1983.
Selected Epidemiological Observations of Cell-specific Leukemia Mortality in the United States, 1969-1977. Amer. J. Epidemiol. 117:140-152.
Selvin, S.; Merrill, D.; Wong, L.; Sacks, S. T. 1984.
Ecologic Regression Analysis and the Study of the Influence of Air Quality on Mortality. Environ. Health Perspect. 54:333-340.
Ernster, V. L.; Sacks, S. T.; Holly, E. A.; Wong, L.; Merrill, D. W.; Selvin, S. 1985.
U.S. Cancer Incidence Rates by Sex, Race, and Age: Graphics of SEER Program Data, 1973-1977; July 1984; American Cancer Society Monograph, 1985.
Selvin, S.; Shaw, G.; Schulman, J.; Merrill, D. W. 1987.
Spatial Distribution of Disease: Three Case Studies. Revised Version: JNCI 79:417-423.
Ernster, V. L.; Selvin, S.; Sacks, S. T.; Ragland, K. E.; Merrill, D. W. 1988.
U.S. Cancer Incidence Rates by Sex, Race, and Age: Graphics of SEER Program Data, 1978 to 1984; American Cancer Society Monograph, 1988.
Ragland, K. E.; Selvin, S.; Merrill, D. W. 1988.
The Onset of Decline in Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality in the United States. Am. J. Epidemiol. 127:516-531.
Schulman, J.; Selvin, S.; Merrill, D. W. 1988.
Density Equalized Map Projections: A Method for Analyzing Clustering Around a Fixed Point. Statistics in Medicine 7:491-505.
Selvin, S.; Merrill, D.; Schulman, J.; Sacks, S.; Bedell, L.; Wong, L. 1988.
Transformations of Maps to Investigate Clusters of Disease. Soc. Sci. Med. 26:215-221.
Shaw, G. M.; Selvin, S.; Swan, S. H.; Merrill, D.; Schulman, J. 1988.
An Examination of Three Disease Clustering Methodologies. Int. J. Epidemiol. 17:913-919.
White, M. C.; Selvin, S.; Merrill, D. W. 1989.
A Study of Multiple Causes of Death in California: 1955 and 1980. J. Clin. Epidemiol. 42:355-365.
Schulman, J.; Selvin, S.; Shaw, G.; Merrill, D. 1990.
Detection of Excess Disease Near an Exposure Point: A Case Study. Arch. Environ. Health. 45:168-174.
Ragland, K. E.; Selvin, S.; Merrill, D. W. 1991.
Black-white Differences in Stage Specific Cancer Survival: Analysis of Seven Selected Sites. Am. J. of Epidemiol. 133:672-682.
Merrill DW, Selvin S and Mohr MS. 1992.
Analyzing geographic clustered response. (6 page summary). In Proceedings of 1991 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Atlanta GA, August 1991.
WWW URL (text only): http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/asa91/short.txt.html.
Selvin, S.; Merrill, D. W.; Schulman, J. 1992.
Distance and Risk Measures for the Analysis of Spatial Data: A Study of Three Childhood Cancers. Soc. Sci. Med. 34(7):769-777.
Rizzardi, M. A.; Mohr, M. S.; Merrill, D. W.; Selvin, S. 1993.
Interfacing U.S. Census Map Files with Statistical Graphics Software: Applications and Use in Epidemiology. Statistics in Medicine 12:1953-1964.
Selvin, S.; Schulman, J.; Merrill, D. 1993.
Interpoint Squared Distance as a Measure of Spatial Clustering. Social Science and Medicine 36(8):1011-1016.
Merrill D, Parker N, Gey F and Stuber C. 1995.
The University of California CD-ROM Information System. Communications of the ACM 38(4) pp.51-52 (1995).
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/cacm9504/final.html.
Merrill DW, Selvin S, Close ER and Holmes HH. 1996.
Use of Density Equalizing Map Projections (DEMP) in the Analysis of Childhood Cancer in Four California Counties. Report LBL-36630 Rev.2. October 1995 (24 pages). Statistics in Medicine, Vol. 15, 1837-1848 (1996).
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9510/reprint.html.
Merrill DW, Parker NG, Holmes HH, Stuber C and Gregg VJ. 1996.
1990 U.S. Census LOOKUP: Mining a Mountain of Data. D-lib magazine, March 1996.
WWW URL: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march96/merrill/03merrill.html.
1998
Selvin S, Merrill DW, Erdmann C, White M, and Ragland K. 1998.
Breast Cancer Detection: Maps of 2 San Francisco Bay Area Counties.
AJPH Vol. 88, No. 8, pp. 1186-1192.
1999
Lea CS, Buffler PA, Durst MJ, Merrill DW and Selvin S. 1999.
Describing Cancer Mortality among Employees at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Environment International (in press).
Merrill DW, Selvin S and Mohr MS. 1991.
Analyzing geographic clustered response. Report LBL-30954, June 1991 (44 pages). Invited paper presented at 1991 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, Atlanta GA, August 1991.
WWW URL (text only): http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/asa91/asa91.txt.html.
Merrill D, Selvin S and Mohr MS. 1992.
Density Equalizing Map Projections: Techniques and Applications. Report LBL-32640. Presented at Workshop on Statistics and Computing in Disease Clustering, Stony Brook NY, 23-24 July 1992.
WWW URL (text only): http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/stonybr/stonybr.txt.html.
Wallin BL, Houser AR, Merrill DW and Selvin S. 1994.
Data Available from Birth and Death Registries and Cancer Registries in the United States. Report LBL-30971.
WWW URL: http://www-library.lbl.gov/docs/LBNL/309/71/HTML/.
Lea CS, Durst MJ, Buffler PA, Merrill DW and Selvin S. 1994.
Computational Approches To Latency Analyses: Is There a Difference? Poster presentation at 1994 Joint Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) and the International Society for Exposure Analysis (ISEA), Research Triangle Park NC, Sep. 18-21, 1994. First prize student poster award.
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/mpub/suzanne/poster94/contents94.html.
Merrill D, Selvin S and Close ER. 1994. (draft)
Use of density equalizing map projections (DEMP) in the analysis of a reported childhood cancer cluster in McFarland, California. Presented at the Second Conference on Statistics and Computing in Disease Clustering, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, July 21-22, 1994. Presented at California Department of Health Services, 9/29/94.
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/vancouver/vancouver.html.
Merrill DW, Selvin S, Close ER and Holmes HH. LBL-36630, January 1995.
Use of Density Equalizing Map Projections (DEMP) in the Analysis of Childhood Cancer in Four California Counties. Report LBL-36630, January 1995. (74 pages).
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9501/lbl36630.html.
Merrill D, Selvin S and Close ER. 1995. (preliminary)
Use of density equalizing map projections (DEMP) in the analysis of childhood cancer in four California counties. Submitted to 1995 CDC/ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods: Small Area Statistics in Public Health: Design, analysis, Graphic and Spatial Methods; January 25-26, 1995; Atlanta, Georgia.
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9501/cdc9501.html.
Merrill DW, Selvin S, Close ER and Holmes HH. 1/25/95.
Use of Density Equalizing Map Projections (DEMP) in the Analysis of Childhood Cancer in Four California Counties. Graphics presented at the 1995 CDC/ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods: Small Area Statistics in Public Health: Design, Analysis, Graphic and Spatial Methods; January 25-26, 1995; Atlanta, Georgia (topic area 5: Detection of temporal and spatial trends in disease patterns) (25 pages).
http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9501/25graphics.html.
Selvin S and Merrill D. February 1995.
Spatial Analysis: An Epidemiologic Surveillance Tool. Invited paper at the Symposium on Computer Mapping in Epidemiology and Environmental Health; Tampa, Florida, February 12-15, 1995.
WWW URL (abstract): http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/tampa9502/abstract.html.
Merrill D. 1995.
Spatial Data at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Graphics presented at Department of Energy Spatial Data Meeting, Washington DC, March 30-31, 1995.
WWW URL (overheads): http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/spatial/spatial.html.
Close ER, Merrill DW and Holmes HH. 1995.
Implementation of a new algorithm for Density Equalizing Map Projections (DEMP). Report LBL-35738, July 1995. Copyright (c) 1995 the Regents of the University of California.
WWW URL: http://imap.chesapeake.net/~merrill/pdocs/tr940401/all.html.
B.G. Brooks, Y.K. Shim, H.G. Stockwell, M.J. Durst, H.H. Holmes, A.M. Konrad, and D.W. Merrill. 1996.
Development of CEDR, a public-use database of radiation epidemiologic studies. Poster abstract submitted to Annual SER Meeting, Boston MA (June 12-15, 1996).
WWW URL (access restricted to CEDR staff): http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cedr/ser96.html.
D.W. Merrill 1996.
Software Today, Data Forever.
Presented at Federal Webmasters Workshop 1996, NSF/NCSA World Wide Web Federal Consortium, Bethesda MD, August 7-9, 1996. WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/fww96/fww96.html
Merrill DW and Selvin S. 1996.
Use of Density Equalizing Map Projections (DEMP) in the Analysis of Childhood Cancer in Four California Counties. Report LBL-36630 Rev.3, November 1996. Presented at National Cancer Institute GIS Advisory Meeting, November 25, 1996. WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/nci9611/nci9611.html.
D.W. Merrill and S. Selvin S. 1997.
Analyzing Spatial Patterns in Health Outcome Surveillance Data. Presented at 1997 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods: Statistical Bases for Public Health Decision Making: From Exploration to Modeling, January 28-30, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9701/cdc9701.html.
D.W. Merrill and S. Selvin. 1997.
A Small-area Public Health Surveillance System for the U.S. Submitted to 1997 CDC and ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods: Statistical Bases for Public Health Decision Making: From Exploration to Modeling, January 29-30, 1997, Atlanta, Georgia.
WWW URL (abstract): http://parep2.lbl.gov/pdocs/cdc9701/seedis.txt.html
Merrill D.W. 1998. Federal Statistical Data Access Issues. Presented to National Science Foundation Applied Research Program "Federal Statistics and the Digital Government," Berkeley, California, January 23, 1998. WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/fedstats/fedstats.html.
Merrill D.W. Federal Statistical Data Access Issues. Presented to National Science Foundation Applied Research Program "Federal Statistics and the Digital Government," Berkeley, California, January 23, 1998. WWW URL: http://parep2.lbl.gov/mdocs/fedstats/fedstats.html.
Merrill D.W. 1998. Density Equalizing Map Projections (Cartograms) in Public Health Applications. Dr.P.H. dissertation, Department of Epidemiology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Public Health, May 1998. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Report LBNL-41624. http://library.lbl.gov/docs/LBNL/416/24/HTML/index.html or http://imap.chesapeake.net/~merrill/thesis.
Merrill DW. 1999. Density Equalizing Map Projections in the Analysis of Childhood Cancer in Four California Counties. Presemted at the 1999 CDC/ATSDR Symposium on Statistical Methods, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1999. Accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Preprint location: http://merrill.olm.net/pdocs/cdc9911/simdwm2.html.
Glenn Davis, World Wide Web "Cool Site of the Day," June 21, 1995.
Jeffery Kahn. Lab's census database has day of fame. LBNL Currents, Vol. 23, No. 25, 14 July 1995, page 4.
Michael Batty, "The Computable City," Keynote Address: Fourth International Conference on Computers in Urban Planning and Urban Management, Melbourne, Australia, July 11th - 14th, 1995.
Best of the Best on the Internet: Census and Demographic Information
Yahoo - Social Science: Data Collections
three star review in McKinley Magellan
Internet Business 500 "Premiere Site," Ryan Bernard, Ventana Press, November 1995
Education Index Award, General Reference Section Nancy Frank, nfrank@collegeview.com, Education Index Editor, January 1998
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