Scan Statistics Methods and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Glaz, Joseph. (Editor), Pozdnyakov, Vladimir. (Editor), Wallenstein, Sylvan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Birkhũser Boston, 2009.
• Series: Statistics for Industry and Technology
• Subjects: Statistics.; Computer science.; Mathematics.; Physiology > Mathematics.; Distribution (Probability theory).; Mathematical statistics.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Physiological, Cellular and Medical Topics.; Probability and Statistics in Computer Science.; Applications of Mathematics.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4749-0

Scan statistics is currently one of the most active and important areas of research in applied probability and statistics, having applications to a wide variety of fields: archaeology, astronomy, bioinformatics, biosurveillance, molecular biology, genetics, computer science, electrical engineering,...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• List of Contributors
• Joseph I. Naus<U+0014>Lifetime Contributions to the Area of Scan Statistics
• Applications of Scan Statistics to Reliability and Quality Control
• Variable Window Scan Statistics
• Scan Statistics and Applications to Biosurveillance
• Scan Statistics and Applications to Bioinformatics
• Algorithms for Approximating the Distribution of Two-Dimensional Scan Statistics
• Applications of Scan Statistics in Epidemiology
• Spatial Scan Statistics and Applications to Epidemiology and Biosurveillance
• Two-Dimensional Scan Statistics
• Scan-type Statistics and Applications
• Algorithms for Spatial Scan Statistics
• Spatial Scan Statistics and Applications in Ecology
• Martingale Methods for Scan Statistics
• Scan Statistics on Graphs with Applications to Social Networks
• Scan-type Statistics with Applications to Bioinformatics
• Analysis of Protein and DNA Sequences
• Scan Statistics with Applications to the Analysis of DNA Sequences
• One-Dimensional Scan Statistics with Applications in Biosurveillance
• Applications of One-Dimensional Scan Statistics in Epidemiology
• Author Index
• Subject Index.