A spatial scan statistic

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1481-1496

  Kulldorff, Martin ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bernoulli process; Clustering; Clusters; Confounders; Inhomogeneous Poisson process; Point patterns; Sudden infant death syndrome

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; FUNCTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICS;

BERNOULLI PROCESS; POISSON PROCESS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 0031361662     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929708831995     Document Type: Article

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