Detecting cancer clusters in a regional population with local cluster tests and Bayesian smoothing methods: a simulation study

BACKGROUND: There is a rising public and political demand for prospective cancer cluster monitoring. But there is little empirical evidence on the performance of established cluster detection tests under conditions of small and heterogeneous sample sizes and varying spatial scales, such as are the c...

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Autores principales: Lemke, Dorothea, Mattauch, Volkmar, Heidinger, Oliver, Pebesma, Edzer, Hense, Hans-Werner
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24314148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-12-54

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878948/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24314148
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-12-54

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