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Methods for investigating localized clustering of disease / edited by F.E. Alexander and P. Boyle.
Holman Biotech Commons RA652.2.M3 M465 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- IARC scientific publications ; no. 135.
- IARC scientific publications ; no. 135
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cancer--Atlases.
- Cancer.
- Diseases--Atlases.
- Diseases.
- Cluster Analysis.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Epidemiology.
- Neoplasms--epidemiology.
- Medical Subjects:
- Cluster Analysis.
- Data Interpretation, Statistical.
- Epidemiology.
- Neoplasms--epidemiology.
- Genre:
- Atlases.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 247 pages : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lyon : International Agency for Research on Cancer, 1996.
- Summary:
- Methods for investigating generalized spatial clustering of disease in human populations have only recently become available. This volume presents the outcome of a unique practical test of these methods, in which authors of several newly-developed approaches conducted their own blind analyses of over 50 artificial datasets, some random, some generated by clustering processes. Results were then compared with the known spatial structure. An historical view of leukaemia clustering is also included. This book will be of particular interest to epidemiologists and public health specialists with responsibility for analysing childhood leukaemia and other rare diseases for which the phenomenon of clustering may offer important clues to aetiology. It will also be useful for statisticians with an interest in analysis of spatial distributions of rare disease.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 236-247).
- ISBN:
- 9283221354
- OCLC:
- 37902532
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