Methods for eliciting aetiological clues from geographically clustered cases of disease, with application to leukaemia-lymphoma data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 164, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 49-60

  Williams, Joan R ^a   Alexander, Freda E ^b   Cartwright, Ray A ^c   McNally, Richard J Q ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HUDDERSFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cancer; Clustering; Clusters; Disease aetiology; Epidemiology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035649614     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00185     Document Type: Article

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