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The role of the assessment of spatial variation and clustering in environmental surveillance of birth defects

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Book ID: 110251691
Publisher: Springer
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 79 KB
Volume: 15
Category: Article
ISSN: 0393-2990
DOI: 10.1023/a:1007569831029

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