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American Journal of Epidemiology 2004 160(5):505-506; doi:10.1093/aje/kwh216
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Copyright © 2004 by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "DETECTING PATTERNS OF OCCUPATIONAL ILLNESS CLUSTERING WITH ALTERNATING LOGISTIC REGRESSIONS APPLIED TO LONGITUDINAL DATA"

Basile Chaix1, Georgiy Bobashev2, Juan Merlo3 and Pierre Chauvin1

1 Research Unit in Epidemiology and Information Sciences, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM U444), 75012 Paris, France
2 Statistics Research Division, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194
3 Department of Community Medicine, Malmö University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, S-205 02 Malmö, Sweden

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We read with interest the recently published article by Preisser et al. (1) on detecting patterns of occupational illness clustering with alternating logistic regressions. When investigations of variations in health or health-related behavior between areas are conducted, it is highly relevant to measure the extent to which phenomena occur in clusters. Furthermore, doing so is useful to determine whether area-level variations can be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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