Investigation of excess environmental risk around putative sources: Stone's test with covariate adjustment

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 189-197

  Morton Jones, Tony ^a   Diggle, Peter ^a   Elliott, Paul ^b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOMACH CANCER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ALGORITHMS; CARCINOGENS, ENVIRONMENTAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; INCINERATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOMACH NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033616420     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990130)18:2<189::AID-SIM7>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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