Lorenz curves and their use in describing the distribution of 'the total burden' of dental caries in a population

Community Dental Health

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 68-71

  Poulsen, Sven ^a   Heidmann, J ^a   Vaeth M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AARHUS   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dental caries; Descriptive statistics; Epidemiology; High risk; Lorenz curves

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENMARK; DENTAL CARIES; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; DENMARK; DENTAL CARIES; DMF INDEX; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 0035380126     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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