Spatial disease clusters: Detection and inference

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 799-810

  Kulldorff, Martin ^a,b,e   Nagarwalla, Neville ^c,d  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS AND STROKE   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d National Cancer Institute ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEUKEMIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEW YORK; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0029055093     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780140809     Document Type: Article

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