Maximally selected measures of evidence of disease clusters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 9-10, 2001, Pages 1443-1460

  Burr, Tom L ^a  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; STYRENE;

ARTICLE; CANCER INCIDENCE; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POWER PLANTS;

EID: 0035873935     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.681     Document Type: Article

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