Adaptations for finding irregularly shaped disease clusters

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Rosychuk, Rhonda J ^b   Hodgson, John ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CANADA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 34547792394     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-28     Document Type: Article

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