Spatial clustering of the failure to geocode and its implications for the detection of disease clustering

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 21, 2008, Pages 4254-4266

  Zimmerman, Dale L ^a   Fang, Xiangming ^a   Mazumdar, Soumya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease clustering; Geocoding; Spatial cluster detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PATIENT CODING; PROBABILITY; RURAL AREA; SIMULATION; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 50849125730     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3288     Document Type: Article

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