A note on the poisson likelihood ratio test statistic for Kulldorff's scan methods

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 998-1001

  Fraker, Shannon E ^a   Woodall, William H ^a   Burkom, Howard S ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster detection; Poisson process; SaTScan software; Scan statistic

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; STATISTICS;

CLUSTER DETECTION; POISSON PROCESS; SCAN STATISTICS;

POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 39049134485     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: 1532415X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920701573375     Document Type: Article

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