Using Gini coefficient to determining optimal cluster reporting sizes for spatial scan statistics
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Using Gini coefficient to determining optimal cluster reporting sizes for spatial scan statistics
BACKGROUND Spatial and space-time scan statistics are widely used in disease surveillance to identify geographical areas of elevated disease risk and for the early detection of disease outbreaks. With a scan statistic, a scanning window of variable location and size moves across the map to evaluate thousands of overlapping windows as potential clusters, adjusting for the multiple testing. Almos...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Health Geographics
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1476-072X
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-016-0056-6