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An index for cancer clustering.

Author(s) -

Toshiro Tango

Publication year - 1990

Publication title -

environmental health perspectives

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.257

H-Index - 282

eISSN - 1552-9924

pISSN - 0091-6765

DOI - 10.1289/ehp.9087157

Subject(s) - cluster analysis , confounding , index (typography) , population , statistics , distribution (mathematics) , cancer , demography , geography , medicine , mathematics , computer science , environmental health , mathematical analysis , sociology , world wide web

This paper generalizes the index for temporal clustering proposed by Tango in two ways: it allows for nonuniform population distributions across the study period and it is applicable to the detection of disease clustering in space where there are variations in population distribution among categories of the confounding factor such as age and sex. Applications are illustrated with 1833 cases of mortality from uterine cancer in the Tokyo metropolitan area during 1978-1982.

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