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A flexibly shaped spatial scan statistic for detecting clusters

BACKGROUND: The spatial scan statistic proposed by Kulldorff has been applied to a wide variety of epidemiological studies for cluster detection. This scan statistic, however, uses a circular window to define the potential cluster areas and thus has difficulty in correctly detecting actual noncircul...

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Autores principales: Tango, Toshiro, Takahashi, Kunihiko
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1173134/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15904524
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1476-072X-4-11