A Novel Non-Parametric Spatiotemporal Scan Statistic: An Application to Detect Disease Outbreaks

The majority of the widely used scan statistics are based on distributional assumptions. Contrary to the existing methods, with a new perspective in clustering, the Mann-Whitney Scan Statistic was introduced to detect clusters in continuous data indexed by time or space, without any distributional a...

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Main Authors: Kethmi H. Hettige, Chandima D. Tilakaratne
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2022-10-01
Series:Applied Sciences
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/20/10513