A Space-Time Scan Statistic To Detect Cluster Alarms Of Dengue Mortality In Indonesia, 2005
This article presents a space-time scan statistic, useful for evaluating space-time cluster alarms, and illustrates the method to investigate a recent dengue mortality alarm in Indonesia. Space-time scan statistics account for multiple testing inherent in a cluster alarm. The baseline process may be...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Indonesia
2008-04-01
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| Series: | Makara Seri Sains |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.ui.ac.id/science/article/viewFile/331/327 |
| Summary: | This article presents a space-time scan statistic, useful for evaluating space-time cluster alarms, and illustrates the method to investigate a recent dengue mortality alarm in Indonesia. Space-time scan statistics account for multiple testing inherent in a cluster alarm. The baseline process may be any inhomogeneous Poisson process with intensity proportional to some known function. Confounders in a particular time can be adjusted for. Three cluster alarms of dengue mortality in Indonesia in 2005 were statistically significant. Space-time scan statistics are useful as screening tools for evaluating which cluster alarms merit further investigation and which clusters are probably chance occurrences. |
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| ISSN: | 1693-6671 |