Constrained spanning tree algorithms for irregularly-shaped spatial clustering

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1771-1783

  Costa, Marcelo Azevedo ^a   Assunção, Renato Martins ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cluster detection; Scan statistics; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY INFORMATION; CLUSTER DETECTION; CLUSTER MODELS; CLUSTER SIZES; CONNECTION REQUIREMENTS; EARLY STOPPING; EVALUATION CRITERIA; GROWING PROCESS; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MINIMUM SPANNING TREES; SCAN STATISTICS; SIMULATED DATASETS; SPANNING TREE ALGORITHMS; SPATIAL CLUSTERING; SPATIAL SCAN STATISTICS; SPATIAL STATISTICS; STATISTICAL POWER;

OPTIMIZATION;

STATISTICS;

EID: 84857641333     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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