Gumbel based p-value approximations for spatial scan statistics

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Abrams, Allyson M ^a   Kleinman, Ken ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; HEALTH GEOGRAPHY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POWER LAW DISTRIBUTION; PRECISION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 78650132971     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-61     Document Type: Article

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