Sequential monitoring of low event rates: An application in environmental epidemiology

Environmetrics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 439-455

  Maul, Armand ^a   Viel, Jean Francois ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

^b Laboratory of Immunology   (France)

Author keywords

Censored data; Leukaemia incidence; Likelihood ratio; Monte Carlo simulation; Risk assessment; Sequential tests; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032869479     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-095X(199907/08)10:4<439::AID-ENV366>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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