Case-control geographic clustering for residential histories accounting for risk factors and covariates

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^a,b   Meliker, Jaymie R ^a,b   AvRuskin, Gillian A ^a   Goovaerts, Pierre ^a   Kaufmann, Andy ^a   Wilson, Mark L ^b   Nriagu, Jerome ^b  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER RISK; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIGRATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; AGE; ETHNIC GROUP; INFORMATION PROCESSING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

AGE FACTORS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MICHIGAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33748305796     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-5-32     Document Type: Article

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