Regression modelling of disease risk in relation to Point sources

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

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 491-505

  Diggle, Peter ^b   Morris, Sara ^a   Elliott, Paul ^a   Shaddick, Gavin ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Imp Coll Sch Med at St Mary's ^*

Author keywords

Environmental epidemiology; Point process modelling; Point sources of risk; Small area health statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039460191     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.1997.00076.x     Document Type: Article

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