Epidemiology of childhood leukaemia in greater london: A search for evidence of transmission assuming a possibly long latent period.

Studies of space-time clustering of cases of childhood leukaemia have yielded equivocal results. This might be because the disease has a long and variable latent period, in which case the usual statistical tests for such clustering are inappropriate. A new statistical method is described which allow...

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Main Authors: Smith, P. G., Pike, M. C., Till, M. M., Hardisty, R. M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: 1976
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2024925/