A critical look at prospective surveillance using a scan statistic

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 34, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1081-1093

  Correa, Thais R ^a   Assunção, Renato M ^a   Costa, Marcelo A ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

average run length; p value; recurrence interval; scan statistic

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EPIDEMIC; PROBABILITY; SCAN STATISTIC; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS; STIMULATION;

EID: 85006445303     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6400     Document Type: Article

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