Surveillance of Down’s Syndrome as a Paradigm of Population Monitoring
- 31 December 1975
- journal article
- research article
- Published by S. Karger AG in Human Heredity
- Vol. 26 (5) , 360-371
- https://doi.org/10.1159/000152828
Abstract
Principles of sequential and supplementary tests for an increased frequency of a sentinel phenotype are illustrated by Australian and Swedish data on Down''s syndrome. Sequential analysis offers substantial advantages over fixed sample size theory for monitoring teratogenic and other noxious agents.Keywords
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