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Lung cancer and COPD rates in Apulia: a multilevel multimember model for smoothing disease mapping

BACKGROUND: If spatial representations of hospitalization rates are used, a problem of instability arises when they are calculated on small areas, owing to the small number of expected and observed cases. Aim of this study is to assess the effect of smoothing, based on the assumption that hospitaliz...

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Autores principales: Bartolomeo, Nicola, Trerotoli, Paolo, Serio, Gabriella
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848212/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20205714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-9-15