Statistical Methods Used in Assessing the Risk of Disease Near a Source of Possible Environmental Pollution: A Review

Michael Hills and Freda Alexander

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A, 1989, vol. 152, issue 3, 353-363

Abstract: Some weaknesses in the usual statistical approach to assessing the risk of disease around potential point sources of environmental pollution are listed. Extensions to take account of extra‐Poisson variability, and to deal with the problem of how to choose an area around the source when little or nothing is known about the distance scale of any possible effect, are reviewed. Techniques for mapping are also briefly reviewed and their relevance to assessing reactive (post hoc) hypotheses is discussed.

Date: 1989
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