Spatiotemporal property analysis of birth defects in Wuxi, China

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 432-437

  Wu, Ji Lei ^a   Chen, Gong ^a   Song, Xin Ming ^a   Li, Cheng Fu ^a   Zhang, Lei ^a   Liu, Lan ^a   Zheng, Xiao Ying ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Birth defects; General G statistic; Spatio temporal characters; Wavelet analysis; Wuxi

Indexed keywords

EID: 57249105536     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-3988(08)60065-3     Document Type: Article

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