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Geographic distribution of autism in California: a retrospective birth cohort analysisKarla C Van Meter
Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, and Medical Investigations of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Institute, University of California Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Autism Res 3:19-29. 2010..nonhigh-school graduate parents. This geographic association possibly occurs because RCs do not actively conduct case finding and parents with lower education are, for various reasons, less likely to successfully seek services...
A procedure to characterize geographic distributions of rare disorders in cohortsKarla C Van Meter
Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis, USA
Int J Health Geogr 7:26. 2008..Using simulations, this study explored the effects of low cluster RR and areal unit size on local area clustering test (LACT) results, proposing a procedure to improve accuracy of cohort spatial analysis for rare events...
