Model-based testing for space-time interaction using point processes: An application to psychiatric hospital admissions in an urban area

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 17, Issue , 2016, Pages 15-25

  Meyer, Sebastian ^a   Warnke, Ingeborg ^b   Rössler, Wulf ^b   Held, Leonhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PSYCHIATRY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Global test of clustering; Knox test; Mantel test; Psychiatric inpatient admissions; Space time K function; Spatio temporal point process

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MENTAL HOSPITAL; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SWITZERLAND; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84963984584     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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