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Tests for directional space—time interaction in epidemiological data
Author(s) -
Lawson Andrew B.,
Viel Jean Francois
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
statistics in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.996
H-Index - 183
eISSN - 1097-0258
pISSN - 0277-6715
DOI - 10.1002/sim.4780142109
Subject(s) - computer science , cluster analysis , statistics , epidemiology , incidence (geometry) , space (punctuation) , data mining , econometrics , medicine , artificial intelligence , mathematics , pathology , geometry , operating system
Abstract Spatial incidence of disease is often recorded with time of occurrence as an ordering label. This ordering can be used to provide distance based tests for joint clustering of cases in space and time. Two different tests are proposed: one where a control disease is available, and the other where only standardized rates within census regions are available.