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S Openshaw1, A W Craft, M Charlton, J M Birch.
Abstract
A new spatial analysis device called a Geographical Analysis Machine detects deviations from the Poisson distribution of rare events. Application to childhood leukaemia data from the north of England identified five clusters, only one of which had been noted by previous methods.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 2893085 DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(88)90352-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Lancet ISSN: 0140-6736 Impact factor: 79.321