Table 2.
A list of the most frequently used keywords in the included articles
| Keywords | Frequency | Percent | MeSH terms |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iran | 27 | 12.33 | Yes |
| Epidemiology | 13 | 5.94 | Yes |
| Incidence | 16 | 7.31 | Yes |
| Spatial analysis | 8 | 3.65 | Yes |
| Cancer | 8 | 3.65 | No |
| Incidence pattern | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Relative risk | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Geographic information | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Incidence rate | 5 | 2.28 | No |
| System | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Breast cancer | 8 | 3.65 | No |
| Cluster analysis | 4 | 1.83 | Yes |
| Children | 5 | 2.28 | No |
| Breast neoplasm | 2 | 0.91 | Yes |
| Spatial | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Esophageal cancer | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Conditional autoregressive model | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Ecological | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Poisson distribution | 2 | 0.91 | Yes |
| Leukemia | 4 | 1.83 | No |
| Clustering | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Risk factor | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Bayesian model | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Full Bayesian model | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Stomach cancer | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Seasonal variation | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Spatial correlation | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Geographic variation | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Spatial autocorrelation | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Skin cancer | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Iran counties | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Geographic distribution | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Mapping | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Lattice data | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Lip cancer | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Spatial statistics | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Gastric cancer | 3 | 1.37 | No |
| Bayesian spatial analysis | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Disease mapping | 7 | 3.20 | No |
| Area-to-area Poisson kriging | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Esophagus cancer | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Brain cancer | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Trend | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Lung cancer | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Geographical regions | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Human development index | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Regression models | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Bladder cancer | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Spatiotemporal | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Risk | 1 | 0.46 | Yes |
| Space-time scan statistics | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Cluster identification | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Gamma Poisson model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Log-normal model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| BYM model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Colorectal neoplasms | 1 | 0.46 | Yes |
| Sex | 1 | 0.46 | Yes |
| Epidemiologic studies | 1 | 0.46 | Yes |
| Colorectal cancer | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Geographical variation | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Temporal | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Esophageal cancer | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Bayesian multilevel space-time model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Bayesian Spatio-temporal analysis | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Spatio-temporal data | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Bayesian disease mapping | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Acute lymphoblastic leukemia | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Climate | 1 | 0.46 | Yes |
| Environmental | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Adaptive smoothing model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Cervix cancer | 2 | 0.91 | No |
| Spatio-temporal analysis | 2 | 0.91 | Yes |
| Bivariate disease mapping | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Prevalent sites | 1 | 0.46 | No |
| Shared component model | 1 | 0.46 | No |
MeSH: Medical subject heading