Power evaluation of disease clustering tests

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages

  Song, Changhong ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Benchmark data; Cluster detection; Global chain clustering; Hot spot clusters; Power; Spatial statistics; Test for spatial randomness

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042626969     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-2-9     Document Type: Article

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