Spatiotemporal analysis of environmental exposure-health effect associations

Journal of Exposure Analysis and Environmental Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 168-187

  Christakos, George ^a   Serre, Marc L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

BME; Death rate; Environmental exposure; Epidemiology; Random fields; Risk assessment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THEORY;

EID: 0034110138     PISSN: 10534245     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jea.7500077     Document Type: Article

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