Hotspot detection and clustering: Ways and means

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-245

  Lawson, Andrew B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster; Environmental; Genomics; Health; Hotspot; Spatial; Spatio temporal; Species density

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GENOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; LANDSCAPE; MAPPING; SOFTWARE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 77953476257     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0142-z     Document Type: Article

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