Detection of overall space-time clustering in a non-uniformly distributed population

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 2561-2572

  Ranta, Jukka ^a   Pitkäniemi, Janne ^a   Karvonen, Marjatta ^a   Virtala, Esa ^a   Rusanen, Jarmo ^b   Colpaert, Alfred ^b   Naukkarinen, Arvo ^b   Tuomilehto, Jaakko ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0029842310     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961215)15:23<2561::AID-SIM370>3.0.CO;2-M     Document Type: Article

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