Disease clusters in structured environments.
Publication Type
Journal Article
Year of Publication
1996
Authors
Grimson, R C; Oden, N
Secondary
Stat Med
Volume
15
Pagination
851-71
Date Published
1996 Apr 15-May 15
Keywords
Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Brazil; Chagas Disease; Child; Child, Preschool; Cluster Analysis; Housing; Humans; Incidence; Infant; Middle Aged; Population Surveillance; Prevalence
Abstract
This paper discusses the distributions of several cluster statistics and illustrates their utility in the analysis of disease incidence or prevalence data arising in organized or structured environments. Such environments involve primary inhabitant locations in office buildings, manufacturing plants, apartment complexes and communities of homes, for example. The methods, which include some generalizations of some existing methods as well as some new ones, will be used to test for household clustering of Trypanosoma cruzi seropositivity data.