A comparison of three tests to detect general clustering of a rare disease in Santa Clara County, California

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1363-1378

  Hill, Elizabeth G ^a   Ding, Li ^b   Waller, Lance A ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b 3M COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIRTH DEFECT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DATA ANALYSIS; INCIDENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0034732983     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000530)19:10<1363::AID-SIM489>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Article

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