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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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Autores principales: Aamodt, Geir, Samuelsen, Sven O, Skrondal, Anders
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 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