Seasonality of birth for cancer in Northern England, UK

Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 338-345

  Feltbower, Richard G ^a   Pearce, Mark S ^b   Dickinson, Heather O ^b   Parker, Louise ^b   McKinney, Patricia A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; HUMAN; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; NEOPLASM; NEWBORN; ONSET AGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; REGISTER; SEASON; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LEUKEMIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; NEOPLASMS; REGISTRIES; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0035490352     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3016.2001.00377.x     Document Type: Article

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