Computing the distribution of the maximum in balls-and-boxes problems with application to clusters of disease cases

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 104, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 11189-11191

  Ewens, Warren J ^a   Wilf, Herbert S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Multinomial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; LEUKEMIA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE;

EID: 34547405655     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0704691104     Document Type: Article

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