Performance of cancer cluster Q-statistics for case-control residential histories

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 297-310

  Sloan, Chantel D ^a   Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^b,c   Gallagher, Carolyn M ^a   Ward, Mary H ^d   Raaschou Nielsen, Ole ^e   Nordsborg, Rikke Baastrup ^e   Meliker, Jaymie R ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e DANISH CANCER SOCIETY RESEARCH CENTER   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Geographic information systems; Residential mobility; Space time clustering

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MIGRATION; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Q STATISTICS; RESIDENTIAL HOME; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DENMARK; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEOPLASMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84869076490     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.09.002     Document Type: Article

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