Detection of spatial disease clusters with LISA functions

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1057-1071

  Moraga, Paula ^a   Montes, Francisco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Disease clusters; LISA functions; Spatial scan statistic

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KIDNEY DISEASE; LOCAL INDICATOR OF SPATIAL ASSOCIATION FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROCESS MODEL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPAIN;

EID: 79954511246     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4160     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Waller LA, Gotway CA. Applied Spatial Statistics for Public Health Data. Wiley: New York, 2004.
2. Kulldorff M. Tests of spatial randomness adjusted for an inhomogeneity: a general framework. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2006; 101(475):1289-1305.
3. Lawson AB. Statistical Methods in Spatial Epidemiology. Wiley: New York, 2006.
4. Diggle PJ, Gómez-Rubio V, Brown PE, Chetwynd AG, Gooding S. Second-order analysis of inhomogeneous spatial point processes using case-control data. Biometrics 2007; 63:550-557.
5. Assunçao R, Costa M, Tavares A, Ferreira S. Fast detection of arbitrarily shaped disease clusters. Statistics in Medicine 2006; 25:723-742.
6. Jacquez GM, Greiling DA. Local clustering in breast, lung and colorectal cancer in Long Island, New York. International Journal of Health Geographics 2003; 2(3):12.
7. Duczmal L, Cançado ALF, Takahashi RHC, Bessegato LF. A genetic algorithm for irregulary shaped spatial scan statistics. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 2007; 52:43-52.
8. Assunçao R, Correa T. Surveillance to detect emerging space-time clusters. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 2009; 53:2817-2830.
9. Assunçao R, Tavares A, Correa T, Kulldorff M. Space-time cluster identification in point processes. The Canadian Journal of Statistics 2007; 35:9-25.
10. Kulldorff M, Heffernan R, Hartman J, Assunçao R, Mostashari F. A space-time permutation scan statistic for disease outbreak detection. PLoS Medicine 2005; 2(3):216-224.
11. Kulldorff M, Athas WF, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Key CR. Evaluating cluster alarms: a space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos, New Mexico. American Journal of Public Health 1998; 88(9):1377-1380.
12. Diggle PJ. Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns. Academic Press: New York, 1983.
13. Cuzick J, Edwards R. Spatial clustering for inhomogeneous populations. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society 1990; 52:73-104.
14. Ripley BD. The second order analysis of stationary point processes. Journal of Applied Probability 1976; 13:255-266.
15. Kulldorff M, Nagarwalla N. Spatial disease clusters: detection and inference. Statistics in Medicine 1995; 14:799-810.
16. Demattei C, Molinari N, Daurés, JP. Arbitrarily shaped multiple spatial cluster detection for case event data. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 2007; 51:3931-3945.
17. Kelsall JE, Diggle PJ. Kernel estimation of relative risk. Bernoulli 1995; 1(1/2):3-16.
18. Bowman AW, Azzalini A. Applied Smoothing Techniques for Data Analysis. Oxford University: Oxford, 1997.
19. Cressie N, Collins LB. Analysis of spatial point patterns using bundles of product density lisa functions. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics 2001; 6:118-135.
20. Mateu J, Lorenzo G, Porcu E. Detecting features in spatial point processes with clutter via local indicators of spatial association. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 2007; 16:1-23.
21. Anselin L. Local indicators of spatial association-lisa. Geographical Analysis 1995; 27:93-115.
22. Collins LB. Inter-event distance methods for the statistical analysis of spatial point processes. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago, 1995.
23. Fiksel T. Edge-corrected density estimators for point processes. Statistics 1988; 19:67-75.
24. Diggle PJ. Statistical Analysis of Spatial Point Patterns (2nd edn). Edward Arnold: London, 2003.