A new proposal to adjust Moran's I for population density

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 16, 1999, Pages 2147-2162

  Assunção, Renato M ^a   Reis, Edna A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BAYES THEOREM; BRAZIL; HOMICIDE; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORBIDITY; POPULATION DENSITY; PROBABILITY; RISK FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 0344117540     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990830)18:16<2147::AID-SIM179>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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