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Titre :	Evaluating cluster alarms : A space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. (1998)
Auteurs :	M. KULLDORFF ; W.F. ATHAS ; E.J. FEUER ; C.R. KEY ; B.A. MILLER ; Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences. National Cancer Institute. Bethesda Md. USA
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	American journal of public health (vol. 88, n° 9, 1998)
Pagination :	1377-1380
Langues:	Anglais
Mots-clés :	Cancer ; Cerveau ; Epidémiologie ; Incidence ; Evolution ; Homme ; Etats Unis ; Amérique du Nord ; Amérique ; Système nerveux [pathologie]
Résumé :	[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST 2RlR0xhQ. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Objectives. This article presents a space-time scan statistics, useful for evaluating space-time cluster alarms, and illustrates the methods on a recent brain cancer cluster alarm in Los Alamos, NM. Methods. The space-time scan statistic accounts for the preselection bias and multiple testing inherent in a cluster alarm. Confounders and time trends can be ajusted for. Results. The observed excess of brain cancer in Los Alamos was not statistically significant Conclusions. The space-time scan statistic is useful as a screening tool for evaluating which cluster alarms merit further investigation and which clusters are probably chances occurrences.

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