A semiparametric cluster detection method - a comprehensive power comparison with Kulldorff's method

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Wen, Shihua ^a   Kedem, Benjamin ^b  

^a ABBOTT LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; MALE; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMETRY; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; PATERNAL EXPOSURE; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749130677     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-8-73     Document Type: Article

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