Issues in the statistical analysis of small area health data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 17-18, 1999, Pages 2377-2399

  Wakefield, Jon ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ERROR; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH STATISTICS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; POLLUTION; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033619212     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19990915/30)18:17/18<2377::aid-sim263>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Conference Paper

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