Spatially significant cluster detection

Spatial Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2014, Pages 103-116

  Murray, Alan T ^a   Grubesic, Tony H ^b   Wei, Ran ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustering; ESDA; Hot spots; Optimization; Spatial scan

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920133396     PISSN: 22116753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2014.03.001     Document Type: Article

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