A generalized linear models approach to spatial scan statistics for covariate adjustment

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1131-1143

  Jung, Inkyung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster detection; Confounding factor; Geographical disease surveillance; GLM

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BERNOULLI MODEL; BREAST CANCER; CANCER STAGING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; COVARIANCE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); GEOGRAPHY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 69949102974     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3535     Document Type: Article

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