Evaluation of Spatial Scan Statistics for Irregularly Shaped Clusters
- 1 June 2006
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics
- Vol. 15 (2) , 428-442
- https://doi.org/10.1198/106186006x112396
Abstract
Spatial scan statistics are commonly used for geographic disease cluster detection and evaluation. We propose and implement a modified version of the simulated annealing spatial scan statistic that...Keywords
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