Area-to-area poisson kriging analysis of mapping of county-level esophageal cancer incidence rates in Iran

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 11-13

  Asmarian, Naeimeh Sadat ^a   Ruzitalab, Ahmad ^b   Kavousi, Amir ^c   Masoud, Salehi ^d   Mahaki, Behzad ^e  

^a SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b FERDOWSI UNIVERSITY OF MASHHAD   (Iran)

^c SHAHID BEHESHTI UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^d TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^e ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Area to area Poisson Kriging; Disease mapping; Esophagus cancer; Iran

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877134961     PISSN: 15137368     EISSN: 2476762X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7314/APJCP.2013.14.1.11     Document Type: Article

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