A test to detect replication in HIV serological data labelled by birth date based on the number of matching pairs in a sample

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1641-1656

  Greenhalgh, David ^a   Doyle, Murray T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; CONFIDENTIALITY; DATA BASE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LABORATORY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SEASONAL VARIATION; SERODIAGNOSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ANNIVERSARIES AND SPECIAL EVENTS; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; ENGLAND; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; REGISTRIES; SCOTLAND; SEASONS; WALES;

EID: 0033565445     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990715)18:13<1641::AID-SIM152>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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