Open AccessEvaluating cluster alarms: a space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Author(s) -
Martin Kulldorff,
W F Athas,
E J Feurer,
B A Miller,
Charles R. Key
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.88.9.1377
Subject(s) - scan statistic , statistic , cluster (spacecraft) , statistics , confounding , false alarm , computer science , brain cancer , medicine , cancer , mathematics , programming language
This article presents a space-time scan statistic, useful for evaluating space-time cluster alarms, and illustrates the method on a recent brain cancer cluster alarms in Los Alamos, NM.