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Evaluating the Performance of a Spatial Scan Statistic Using Simulated Outbreak Characteristics
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Research evaluating the use of spatial data for surveillance purposes is ongoing and evolving. As spatial methods evolve, it is important to characterize their effectiveness in real-world settings. Assessing the performance of… read more… outbreak data (signal) into actual background visit data. These studies focused on either temporal data, a … synthetic outbreak data (signal) into actual back- ground visit data.1,2,3 These studies focused on either temporal … and longitude using ESRI ArcGIS 8.3. For each week of visit data we used a cluster creation tool4 to insert one of …