Relative risk estimates from spatial and space-time scan statistics: Are they biased?

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 15, 2014, Pages 2634-2644

  Prates, Marcos O ^a   Kulldorff, Martin ^b   Assunção, Renato M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Bias; Relative risk; Scan statistic; Space time statistics; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; RISK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; RISK; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 84901827152     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6143     Document Type: Article

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