A double-scan statistic for clusters of two types of events

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 92, Issue 439, 1997, Pages 1105-1113

  Naus, Joseph I ^a   Wartenberg, Dan ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Homicide; Lagged effects; Suicide; Temporal association

Indexed keywords

EID: 23744474445     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1997.10474066     Document Type: Article

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