A flexible spatial scan test for case event data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2843-2850

  Cucala, Lionel ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE MATHÉMATIQUES DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES; ONE-DIMENSIONAL; POINT PROCESS; SCAN STATISTICS; SCAN TESTS; SPATIAL CLUSTERS; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS; SPECIFIC ORDERINGS;

EID: 62849088826     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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