Conceptual and practical issues in the detection of local disease clusters: a study of mortality in Hamilton, Ontario.

Recent advances in local spatial statistics and operational computing capacity have led to growing interest in the detection of disease clusters for public health surveillance and for improving understanding of disease pathogenesis. Although conceptual reviews and applied examples have appeared in t...

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Publicado en:	Canadian Geographer Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 160 - 172
Autores principales:	Burra, Tara, Jerrett, Michael, Burnett, Richard T.
Formato:	Artículo
Publicado:	Wiley-Blackwell Summer 2002
Materias:	Spatial analysis (Statistics) Geography > Methodology Geography > Statistical methods Mortality Ontario
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