Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering

• Main Author: Tango, Toshiro. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Series: Statistics for Biology and Health,
• Subjects: Statistics.; Oncology.; Epidemiology.; Biometrics.; Statistical methods.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.; Biostatistics.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Cancer Research.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1572-6

The development of powerful computing environment and the geographical information system (GIS) in recent decades has thrust the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data into the mainstream of spatial epidemiology. This book offers a modern perspective on statistical methods for detecting d...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Clustering and clusters
• Disease mapping: Visualization of spatial clustering
• Tests for temporal clustering
• General tests for spatial clustering: Regional count data
• General tests for spatial clustering: Case-control point data
• Tests for space-time clustering
• Focused tests for spatial clustering
• Space-time scan statistics.