Effect of spatial resolution on cluster detection: A simulation study

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ozonoff, Al ^a,b   Jeffery, Caroline ^b   Manjourides, Justin ^b   White, Laura Forsberg ^a,b   Pagano, Marcello ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; STATISTICS; TOPOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 38649136268     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-6-52     Document Type: Article

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