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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...
Autores principales: | Gregorio, David I, Samociuk, Holly, DeChello, Laurie, Swede, Helen |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2006
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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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