A procedure to characterize geographic distributions of rare disorders in cohorts

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Van Meter, Karla C ^a   Christiansen, Lasse E ^b,c   Hertz Picciotto, Irva ^a,d   Azari, Rahman ^d   Carpenter, Tim E ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH RISK; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; RARE DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COHORT STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RARE DISEASES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 45949102885     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-7-26     Document Type: Article

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