Geostatistical analysis of disease data: Estimation of cancer mortality risk from empirical frequencies using Poisson kriging

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Goovaerts, Pierre ^a  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

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EID: 29544452999     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-4-31     Document Type: Article

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