Local and marginal control charts applied to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia reports in UK acute National Health Service trusts

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 172, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 49-66

  Grigg, O A ^a,b   Spiegelhalter, D J ^a   Jones, H E ^a  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

False discovery rate; Hierarchical model; Methicillin resistant Staphyloccocus aureus; Multiple control charts; Multiplicity control; P value

Indexed keywords

EID: 57849085715     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2008.00553.x     Document Type: Article

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