Effects of study area size on geographic characterizations of health events: Prostate cancer incidence in Southern New England, USA, 1994–1998

BACKGROUND: We consider how representations of geographic variation in prostate cancer incidence across Southern New England, USA may be affected by selection of study area and/or properties of the statistical analysis. METHOD: A spatial scan statistic was used to monitor geographic variation among...

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Autores principales: Gregorio, David I, Samociuk, Holly, DeChello, Laurie, Swede, Helen
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1386648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16480512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-5-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1386648/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16480512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-5-8

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