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Geostatistical analysis of disease data: estimation of cancer mortality risk from empirical frequencies using Poisson kriging

BACKGROUND: Cancer mortality maps are used by public health officials to identify areas of excess and to guide surveillance and control activities. Quality of decision-making thus relies on an accurate quantification of risks from observed rates which can be very unreliable when computed from sparse...

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Autor principal: Goovaerts, Pierre
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1360096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16354294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-4-31