A simulated annealing strategy for the detection of arbitrarily shaped spatial clusters

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 269-286

  Duczmal, Luiz ^a   Assuncáo, Renato ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Disease clusters; Hot spot detection; Likelihood ratio test; Simulated annealing; Spatial cluster detection

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ANNEALING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRAPH THEORY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

HOMICIDE CLUSTER DETECTION; SPATIAL CLUSTERS;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 1142280371     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00302-X     Document Type: Article

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