Detection of clusters of a rare disease over a large territory: Performance of cluster detection methods

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Goujon Bellec, Stéphanie ^a,b   Demoury, Claire ^a   Guyot Goubin, Aurélie ^a,b   Hémon, Denis ^a   Clavel, Jacqueline ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b French National Registry of Childhood Blood Malignancies RNHE   (France)

Author keywords

Cluster detection; Large scale; Leukemia; Power; Rare disease; Spatial scan methods

Indexed keywords

BLOOD SYSTEM DISORDER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DETECTION METHOD; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

ACUTE DISEASE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RARE DISEASE; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FRANCE; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RARE DISEASES;

EID: 80053540585     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-10-53     Document Type: Article

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