Cluster detection methods applied to the Upper Cape Cod cancer data

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Ozonoff, Al ^a   Webster, Thomas ^a   Vieira, Veronica ^a   Weinberg, Janice ^a   Ozonoff, David ^a   Aschengrau, Ann ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RESEARCH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LATENT PERIOD; MEDICAL RESEARCH; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAPS AS TOPIC; MASSACHUSETTS; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK;

EID: 26244453168     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-4-19     Document Type: Article

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