Best Practices

• Using Geographic Information Systems Technology in the Collection, Analysis, and Presentation of Cancer Registry Data: A Handbook of Basic Practices - state-of-the-art information compiled to assist all cancer registries in their decisions about GIS tools, practices, and current issues.
  
  
• NCI sponsored a meeting of spatial statisticians in 2002 to develop a series of articles describing the current best practices in the statistical analysis of spatial data. Draft articles are under review by the editors, Lance Waller of Emory University, Atlanta GA, and Linda Pickle of NCI.