A tree-based scan statistic for database disease surveillance

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 323-331

  Kulldorff, Martin ^a   Fang, Zixing ^b   Walsh, Stephen J ^a  

^a School of Medicine   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Data mining; Epidemiology; Exploratory analysis; Occupation; Silicosis; Tree variable

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH RISKS; RISK PERCEPTION; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS; HIERARCHICAL TREE; OCCUPATION; POTENTIAL RISKS; RISK FACTORS; SCAN STATISTICS; SILICOSIS; TREE VARIABLE; TREE-BASED;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SILICOSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0037869537     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1541-0420.00039     Document Type: Article

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