Applications of Control Charts in Medicine and Epidemiology

We consider two applications of control charts in health care. The first involves the comparison of four methods designed to detect an increase in the incidence rate of a rare health event, such as a congenital malformation. A number of methods have been proposed: among these are the Sets method,...

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Main Author: Sego, Landon Hugh
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/26795
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04122006-182352/