Delineation of irregularly shaped disease clusters through multiobjective optimization

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 243-262

  Duczmal, Luiz ^a   Cançado, André L F ^a   Takahashi, Ricardo H C ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Genetic algorithm; Geometric compactness penalty correction; Gumbel distribution; Pareto sets; Spatial scan statistic

Indexed keywords

EID: 41949128368     PISSN: 10618600     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/106186008X287517     Document Type: Article

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