A test to detect clusters of disease

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/74.3.631MaRDI QIDQ3765095zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alice S. Whittemore, Nina Friend, Byron Wm. jun. Brown, Elizabeth A. Holly

Publication date 1987

Published in Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/74.3.631

zbMATH Keywords

asymptotic normalitymultinomial distributionPoisson processspatial clusteringmortality dataU- statisticdisease incidence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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