Evaluation of spatial scan statistics for irregularly shaped clusters

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 428-442

  Duczmal, Luiz ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^b   Huang, Lan ^c  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease clusters; Elliptic scan; Non compactness penalty; Power evaluation; Simulated annealing scan; Spatial cluster detection

Indexed keywords

EID: 33745313946     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186006X112396     Document Type: Article

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