Realistic power simulations compare point-and area-based disease cluster tests

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 783-806

  Oden, Neal ^a,c   Jacquez, Geoffrey ^a,d   Crimson, Roger ^b  

^a APPLIED BIOMATHEMATICS   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c EMMES CORPORATION   (United States)

^d Bio Medware   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; LEUKEMIA; LYME DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; RABIES; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ANIMALS; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOXES; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LYME DISEASE; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RABIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0029993677     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<783::aid-sim249>3.0.co;2-o     Document Type: Review

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