The CUSCORE test and the q-interval in cluster analyses of colon cancer and of lymphoma among asbestos workers

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 19, 2003, Pages 3101-3109

  Chen, Rina ^a   Froom, P ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Asbestos; Colon cancer; CUSCORE test; Disease clustering; Lymphoma; q interval

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COLON CANCER; HUMAN; ISRAEL; LYMPHOMA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TURNOVER TIME;

ASBESTOS; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LYMPHOMA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0141481026     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1534     Document Type: Article

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