Spatial and temporal clustering of an occupational poisoning: The example of Green Tobacco Sickness

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 7-9, 1996, Pages 747-757

  Mcknight, Robert H ^a   Kryscio, Richard J ^b   Mays, Jonathan R ^a   Rodgers Jr , George C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c KENTUCKY REGIONAL POISON CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE;

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTOXICATION; OCCUPATIONAL TOXICOLOGY; TIME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0030009486     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960415)15:7/9<747::aid-sim246>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Conference Paper

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