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A simulation study of three methods for detecting disease clusters
BACKGROUND: Cluster detection is an important part of spatial epidemiology because it can help identifying environmental factors associated with disease and thus guide investigation of the aetiology of diseases. In this article we study three methods suitable for detecting local spatial clusters: (1...
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BioMed Central
2006
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1468395/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16608532 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-5-15 |