A method for testing low-value spatial clustering for rare diseases

Acta Tropica

Volumn 91, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-289

  Lin, Ge ^a   Zhang, Tonglin ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Low value clustering; Relative risk; Trimmed mean

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MORTALITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MALE; MINNESOTA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 3142540866     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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