About the Authors

Chantel D. Sloan

chantel.sloan@byu.edu

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Department of Health Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America

Rikke B. Nordsborg

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Geoffrey M. Jacquez

Affiliations BioMedware, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, United States of America

Ole Raaschou-Nielsen

Affiliation Danish Cancer Society Research Center, Copenhagen, Denmark

Jaymie R. Meliker

Affiliations Department of Preventive Medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America, Program in Public Health, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

Competing Interests

Jaymie Meliker, PhD, is a PLOS One editorial board member. Geoff Jacquez is President of BioMedware, the company that developed the SpaceStat software that was used for the calculation of the Q-statistics. This does not alter the authors adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria. The remaining authors have no competing interests to disclose.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JM CS GJ. Performed the experiments: JM CS. Analyzed the data: CS JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GJ ORN RBN. Wrote the paper: CS RN GJ ORN JM.