Detection of emerging space-time clusters

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 218-227

  Neill, Daniel B ^a   Moore, Andrew W ^a   Sabhnani, Maheshkumar ^a   Daniel, Kenny ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosurveillance; Cluster detection; Space time scan statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOSURVEILLANCE; CLUSTER DETECTION; SPACE-TIME SCAN STATISTICS;

AEROSOLS; AUTOMATION; BIOTECHNOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; DISEASES; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 32344433422     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1081870.1081897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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