Tests to Detect Clustering of Infected Individuals within Families

DOI10.2307/2533100zbMath0891.62077OpenAlexW2327019984WikidataQ52272191 ScholiaQ52272191MaRDI QIDQ4350004

Tom Britton

Publication date: 23 October 1997

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/0e7f59aee73eb77c86bba99d9110e2c10b16b9c5

zbMATH Keywords

score testwithin-family clustering of infected individuals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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