Application of Scan Statistics to Detect Suicide Clusters in Australia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Cheung, Yee Tak Derek ^a   Spittal, Matthew J ^b   Williamson, Michelle Kate ^b   Tung, Sui Jay ^a   Pirkis, Jane ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCAN STATISTICS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE; TERRITORIALITY; TREND STUDY;

EID: 84872323678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054168     Document Type: Article

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