A class of tests for detecting ‘general’ and ‘focused’ clustering of rare diseases

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 21-22, 1995, Pages 2323-2334

  Tango, Toshiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0028789271     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780142105     Document Type: Article

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