A test to detect clusters of disease

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/74.3.631zbMATH Open0628.62103OpenAlexW1981887917MaRDI QIDQ3765095FDOQ3765095

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

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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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