A comparison of some simple methods to identify geographical areas with excess incidence of a rare disease such as childhood leukaemia

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1501-1516

  Wray, Naomi R ^a   Alexander, Freda E ^a   Muirhead, Colin R ^b   Pukkala, Eero ^c   Schmidtmann, Irene ^d   Stiller, Charles ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c FINNISH CANCER REGISTRY   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILDHOOD LEUKEMIA; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE, L1; MALE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; ROC CURVE;

EID: 0033618128     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990630)18:12<1501::AID-SIM135>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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