The Problem of Multiple Inference in Identifying Point-Source Environmental Hazards
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- 1 October 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in Environmental Health Perspectives
- Vol. 62, 407
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3430145
Abstract
Point-source environmental hazards are often identified by examination of unusual clusters of disease cases. The very large number of potential clusters give rise to the statistical problem of "multiple inference," i.e., the more clusters examined, the ...Keywords
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