A model for clustering of longitudinal data sets of infant mortality rates in India

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Bansal, Ajay Kumar ^a,c   Sharma, Shrideo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b MEERUT COLLEGE   (India)

^c NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Clustering of trends; Dissimilarity coefficient; Infant mortality rate; Longitudinal data sets; Time trends

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGISTRIES;

EID: 0038559628     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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