Childhood leukaemia in Sweden: Using GIS and a spatial scan statistic for cluster detection

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 707-715

  Hjalmars, Ulf ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^b,c   Gustafsson, Göran ^d   Nagarwalla, Neville ^e  

^a Central Hospital   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; POPULATION RESEARCH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWEDEN;

EID: 0029921796     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<707::aid-sim242>3.0.co;2-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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