Small group estimation for public health

Canadian Journal of Public Health

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 130-134

  Spasoff, Robert A ^a   Strike, Carol ^a   Air, Rama C N ^a   Dimkley, Geoffrey C ^a   Boulet, Jack R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANADA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0030003361     PISSN: 00084263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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