A polygon-based locally-weighted-average method for smoothing disease rates of small units

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 523-528

  Shi, Xun ^a   Duell, Eric ^b   Demidenko, Eugene ^b   Onega, Tracy ^b   Wilson, Benjamin ^a   Hoftiezer, David ^a  

^a Dartmouth College   (United States)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; NEW HAMPSHIRE; REGISTRIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 34547856984     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e3181271ac8     Document Type: Article

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