The Detection of Clusters in Rare Diseases

Tests for clustering of rare diseases investigate whether an observed pattern of cases in one or more geographical regions could reasonably have arisen by chance alone, bearing in mind the variation in background population density. In contrast, tests for the detection of clusters are concerned with...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Statistics in society, 1991-01, Vol.154 (1), p.143-155
Hauptverfasser:	Besag, Julian, Newell, James
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	At risk population Cancer Censuses Centroids clustering clusters Disease risk Diseases Epidemiology Geographic regions leukaemia Leukemia Medical research monte carlo methods Rare diseases screening Significance level
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