Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering

摘要

Readership: Students and researchers in biostatistics, epidemiology and environmental sciences.rnThere is an increasing awareness nowadays of environmental health risks, including bio-terrorism, together with the development of modern data collection systems. This combination provides a major impetus for the sorts of studies described in this book. The basic question addressed is: are the observed events (of disease) compatible with random occurrence in space and time or is there some discernible pattern? We have all seen the headlines in recent years proclaiming the proximity to nuclear sites of outbreaks of childhood leukemia, or of various health issues in the vicinity of waste incinerators.