Investigations of excess environmental risks around putative sources: Statistical problems and a proposed test

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 649-660

  Stone, Richard A ^a  

^a CSIRO MATHEMATICAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adjusted significance level; Childhood cancer; Data selection; Isotonic regression; Leukaemia; Nuclear plants

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PROBABILITY; RADIATION INJURY; RISK FACTOR;

AUSTRALIA; CHILD; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA, RADIATION-INDUCED; NEOPLASMS, RADIATION-INDUCED; NUCLEAR REACTORS; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0024022198     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780070604     Document Type: Article

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