Exploratory spatial data analysis for the identification of risk factors to birth defects

BMC Public Health

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 1-10

  Wu, Jilei ^a,b   Wang, Jinfeng ^a   Meng, Bin ^a   Chen, Gong ^b   Pang, Lihua ^b   Song, Xinming ^b   Zhang, Keli ^c   Zhang, Ting ^d   Zheng, Xiaoying ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d CAPITAL INSTITUTE OF PEDIATRICS   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANENCEPHALUS; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRTH DEFECT; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALOCELE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FAMILY PLANNING; HOLOPROSENCEPHALY; HYDROCEPHALUS; LABORATORY TEST; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPINA BIFIDA;

EID: 4544359493     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-4-23     Document Type: Article

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