Flexible scan statistic test to detect disease clusters in hierarchical trees
✍ Scribed by Prates, Marcos O.; Assunção, Renato M.; Costa, Marcelo A.
- Book ID
- 120596398
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 296 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0943-4062
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