A Spatial Scan Approach to Detecting Focused-Global Clustering in Case-Control Data

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 368-385

  Yiannakoulias, Nikolaos ^a   Bland, Widmer ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DETECTION METHOD; DRAINAGE BASIN; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDESTRIAN; POINT SOURCE POLLUTION; PROBABILITY; ROAD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84867045294     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2012.00858.x     Document Type: Article

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