An examination of five spatial disease clustering methodologies for the identification of childhood cancer clusters in Alberta, Canada

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 321-330

  Torabi, M ^a   Rosychuk, R J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistic; Cancer cases; Geographic epidemiology; Spatial cluster detection

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN DISEASE MAPPING; BESAG NEWELL ANALYSIS; CANADA; CHILD; CHILDHOOD CANCER; CIRCULAR SPATIAL SCAN STATISTIC; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FLEXIBLE SPATIAL SCAN STATISTIC; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; TANGO MAXIMIZED EXCESS EVENTS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ALBERTA; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 82455210768     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2011.10.003     Document Type: Article

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