Investigating increased incidence of events in the islands: A Hawaii Department of Health perspective

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 699-705

  Maskarinec, Gertraud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0029919348     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<699::aid-sim241>3.0.co;2-w     Document Type: Conference Paper

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