Improving the power of chronic disease surveillance by incorporating residential history

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 2222-2233

  Manjourides, Justin ^a   Pagano, Marcello ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Incubation period distributions; Interpoint distances; Public health surveillance; Residential history; U statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMANS;

EID: 79960262469     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4272     Document Type: Article

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