A standardized ratio for measuring the 'suddenness' of events with applications to the four leading causes of violent death and to certain birth defects
| Autor: | Roger C. Grimson |
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| Rok vydání: | 1980 |
| Předmět: |
Temporal clustering
medicine.medical_specialty Violent death Sociology and Political Science Population Theoretical models Tracheoesophageal fistula Violence Homicide Epidemiology medicine Humans Mortality education Esophageal Atresia Demography Accidental Deaths education.field_of_study business.industry Infant Newborn medicine.disease Space-Time Clustering business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Tracheoesophageal Fistula |
| Zdroj: | Social Biology. 27:286-293 |
| ISSN: | 0037-766X |
| DOI: | 10.1080/19485565.1980.9988431 |
| Popis: | An index which provides a measure of abrupt or sudden change in epidemic trends is provided. Using this index a simple comparison of the epidemiology of deaths due to homicides suicides motor vehicle accidents and other accidents [in a North Carolina city] is made. One example of the findings is that the trend in accidental deaths over recent years possesses more spontaneity or temporal clustering than the trend in violent nonaccidental deaths. Another application reveals an informative epidemiologic feature of the birth defects tracheoesophageal fistula and esophageal atresia. Implications of such findings are considered. (EXCERPT) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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