NCI National Cancer Institute www.cancer.gov U.S. National Institutes of Health

Head-Bang: Getting Help

If you are new to the Head-Bang software, please review the following articles.

For more details on the methods:

Katherine M Hansen. Head-banging: robust smoothing in the plane. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 1991;29(3): 369-378.

For an example of an application of Head-Bang:

Linda Williams Pickle, Yuchen Su. Within-state geographic patterns of health insurance coverage and health risk factors in the United States. Am J Prev Med 2002;22(2):75-83.[View PDF article]

Technical support resources:

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2009

Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences National Cancer Institute Department of Health and Human Services National Institutes of Health USA.gov