Global, local and focused geographic clustering for case-control data with residential histories

Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source

Volumn 4, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Jacquez, Geoffrey M ^a   Kaufmann, Andy ^a   Meliker, Jaymie ^b   Goovaerts, Pierre ^a   AvRuskin, Gillian ^a   Nriagu, Jerome ^b  

^a BIOMEDWARE INC   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CANCER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INTERNATIONALITY; MICHIGAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84872267262     PISSN: 1476069X     EISSN: 1476069X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-069X-4-4     Document Type: Article

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