An empirical comparison of spatial scan statistics for outbreak detection
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The spatial scan statistic is a widely used statistical method for the automatic detection of disease clusters from syndromic data. Recent work in the disease surveillance community has proposed many variants of Kulldorff's orig...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2009-04-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Health Geographics |
| Online Access: | http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/20 |