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Relevance of the type III error in epidemiological maps

Harald Heinzl1, Thomas Waldhoer

  • 1Center for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.

International Journal of Health Geographics
|August 21, 2012
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