Detecting clusters of disease with R

Journal of Geographical Systems

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 189-206

  Gomez Rubio V ^a   Ferrandiz Ferragud J ^a   Lopez Quilez A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disease cluster detection; Epidemiology; R programming language; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 21244473013     PISSN: 14355930     EISSN: 14355949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10109-005-0156-5     Document Type: Article

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