Detection of spatially clustered outbreaks in motor vehicle crashes: What's the best method?

Safety Science

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 794-806

  Sparks, Ross ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Average run length; Cumulative sum; Monitoring; SCAN statistic; Spatial outbreaks

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE RUN LENGTHS; CUMULATIVE SUM; EARLY DETECTION; MOTOR VEHICLE CRASHES; SCAN STATISTIC; SCAN STATISTICS; SHAPE AND SIZE; SPATIAL OUTBREAKS; SPATIO-TEMPORAL; SURVEILLANCE METHODS;

VEHICLES;

STATISTICS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; EXPONENTIAL TWO PASS CUMULATIVE SUM PLAN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAN STATISTIC; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT;

EID: 79955659312     PISSN: 09257535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssci.2010.06.007     Document Type: Article

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