The cumulative q interval curve as a starting point in disease cluster investigation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1999, Pages 3299-3307

  Chen, Rina ^a,b  

^a ISRAEL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Israel)

^b NONE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST CANCER; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER STATISTICS; CHRONIC MYELOID LEUKEMIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OVARY CANCER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UTERUS CANCER; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ISRAEL; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033573301     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991215)18:23<3299::AID-SIM317>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Conference Paper

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