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Accurate Detection of Arbitrarily-Shaped Spatial Disease Clusters
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Methods for locating spatial clusters of diseases are typically variations of the circular scan statistic method. They restrict the number of potential clusters by considering all circular, rectangular, or elliptical regions, and then apply a… read more… of each potential cluster. Because disease outbreaks may have variable shapes, there has been recent interest in … of each potential cluster. Because disease outbreaks may have variable shapes, there has been recent interest in … REFERENCES l scan statistic, Comm and Methods. 1997; 26(6):1481-1496. [2] Neill D, Moore A and Sabhnani M, D …