Spatial partitioning using multivariate cluster analysis and a contiguity algorithm

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 17-18, 1996, Pages 1885-1894

  Sá Carvalho, Marilia ^a   Cruz, Oswaldo Gonçalves ^a   Nobre, Flávio Fonseca ^b  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b Lab of Transmission and Technology   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 10144221978     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19960915)15:17<1885::aid-sim400>3.0.co;2-#     Document Type: Article

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