Maximum scan score-type statistics

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 1316-1322

  Glaz, Joseph ^a   Zhang, Zhenkui ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bonferroni type inequality; Clustering detection; Moving sums; Scan statistic; Variable window

Indexed keywords

EID: 33744785401     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.01.007     Document Type: Article

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