Evaluating spatial methods for investigating global clustering and cluster detection of cancer cases

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 5111-5142

  Huang, Lan ^a   Pickle, Linda W ^b   Das, Barnali ^b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer cases; Spatial clustering and cluster detection; Spatial statistic comparison

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 60249090294     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3342     Document Type: Article

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