A study of the breast cancer dynamics in North Carolina

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1503-1517

  Christakos, George ^a   Lai, Jaim Jou ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Health; North Carolina; Spatiotemporal random fields

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER RISK; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NORTH CAROLINA; REGISTRIES; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 0030668702     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(97)00080-4     Document Type: Article

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