Disease Clusters: Should They Be Investigated, And, If So, When and How?

DOI10.1111/1467-985X.00180zbMATH Open1002.62514OpenAlexW1998176036MaRDI QIDQ4785387FDOQ4785387

Jon Wakefield, Paul Elliott

Publication date: 1 January 2003

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A. Statistics in Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-985x.00180

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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