Poisson mixture methods and change point analyses to study the relationship between temporal profiles of sudden infant death syndrome and climate.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS or cot death) is the leading cause of infant death in the developed world (Byard et al, 1996), and is unique in the medical lexicon in that it represents a pathology defined by categories of exclusion. Historically, Canterbury has had one of the highest rates of SI...
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University of Canterbury. Statistics
2012
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10092/6696 |