Use of stone's method in studies of disease risk around point sources of environmental pollution

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1927-1934

  Shaddick, Gavin ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH STATISTICS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0029820349     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960930)15:18<1927::aid-sim405>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Article

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