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Investigation of spatial clustering from matched and stratified case-control studies.

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Published
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>4/09/2001
<mark>Journal</mark>Biostatistics
Issue number3
Volume2
Number of pages17
Pages (from-to)277-293
Publication StatusPublished
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The paper demonstrates how existing theory to assess spatial clustering based on second-moment properties of a labelled point process can be adapted to matched case-control studies. The null hypothesis that cases are a random sample from the superposition of cases and controls is replaced by the hypothesis that each case is a random sample from the set consisting of itself and its k matched controls. We compare the proposed test with other tests of spatial clustering, and describe an application to data on childhood diabetes in Yorkshire, England.

Bibliographic note

RAE_import_type : Journal article RAE_uoa_type : Statistics and Operational Research