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The Statistical Analysis of Clustering of Events
Author(s) -
Nagelkerke N. J. D.,
Oskam S.,
Fidler V.,
Yzermans C. J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.4710300810
Subject(s) - cluster analysis , null hypothesis , statistical hypothesis testing , statistics , econometrics , poisson distribution
Abstract The concept of clustering of events within elements of a population is explored. Test statistics for testing the null hypothesis of a Poisson process versus the alternative of clustering are developed and their conditional null expectation and variance are derived. An application to an EEG registration of an epilepsy patient is presented.