Adaptations for finding irregularly shaped disease clusters

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Recent adaptations of the spatial scan approach to detecting disease clusters have addressed the problem of finding clusters that occur in non-compact and non-circular shapes – such as along roads or river networks. Some of these app...

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Main Authors: Rosychuk Rhonda J, Yiannakoulias Nikolaos, Hodgson John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2007-07-01
Series:International Journal of Health Geographics
Online Access:http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/28