@article{ref1,
title="Disease clusters, exact distributions of maxima, and P-values",
journal="Statistics in Medicine",
year="1993",
author="Grimson, R. C.",
volume="12",
number="19-20",
pages="1773-1794",
abstract="This paper presents combinatorial (exact) methods that are useful in the analysis of disease cluster data obtained from small environments, such as buildings and neighbourhoods. Maxwell-Boltzmann and Fermi-Dirac occupancy models are compared in terms of appropriateness of representation of disease incidence patterns (space and/or time) in these environments. The methods are illustrated by a statistical analysis of the incidence pattern of bone fractures in a setting wherein fracture clustering was alleged to be occurring. One of the methodological results derived in this paper is the exact distribution of the maximum cell frequency in occupancy models.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0277-6715",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}