Detection of spatial clustering with average likelihood ratio test statistics

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 6 B, 2009, Pages 3985-4010

  Chan, Hock Peng ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Average likelihood ratio; Change of measure; Generalized likelihood ratio; Logistic model; Moderate deviations; Scan statistic; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

EID: 73949151530     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/09-AOS701     Document Type: Article

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