Urbanicity-related trends in lung cancer mortality in US counties: White females and white males, 1970-1987

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 918-932

  Kafadar, Karen ^a   Freedman, Laurence S ^b   Goodall, Colin R ^c   Tukey, John W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exploratory data analysis; Geographical epidemiology; Poisson; Smoothing; Urbanicity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; UNITED STATES; URBANIZATION;

DISEASE TREND; GEOGRAPHICAL PATTERN; LUNG CANCER; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MORTALITY RATE; SEX DIFFERENCES; URBANISATION;

USA;

EID: 0029659687     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/25.5.918     Document Type: Article

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