A simulation study of three methods for detecting disease clusters

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Aamodt, Geir ^a,c   Samuelsen, Sven O ^b,c   Skrondal, Anders ^c,d  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; TECHNIQUE;

BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; METHODS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK;

EID: 33646860308     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-15     Document Type: Article

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