Office of Inspector General (OIG) Office of Medicare Hearings and Appeals (OMHA) Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) Operating Divisions Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Administration for Community Living (ACL) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)*.
Statistical Parametric Mapping. SPM (Statistical Parametric Mapping) refers to the construction and assessment of spatially extended statistical processes used to test hypotheses about functional imaging data. These ideas have been instantiated in software that is called SPM.
(August 2009). Statistical geography is the study and practice of collecting, analysing and presenting data that has a geographic or areal dimension, such as census or demographics data. To estimate the probability of outcomes for an event at a given location. 2  To use samples of geographic data to infer characteristics for a larger set of geographic data (population). 3  To determine if the magnitude or frequency of some phenomenon differs from one location to another.