Power evaluation of disease clustering tests.

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Published in Int J Health Geogr on December 19, 2003

Authors

Changhong Song1, Martin Kulldorff

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1: Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, 06269, U,S,A. changhon@stat.uconn.edu

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