Flexible Scan Statistics for Detecting Spatial Disease Clusters: The rflexscan R Package

The spatial scan statistic is commonly used to detect spatial disease clusters in epidemiological studies. Among the various types of scan statistics, the flexible scan statistic proposed by Tango and Takahashi (2005) is one of the most promising methods to detect arbitrarily-shaped clusters. In thi...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Otani, Kunihiko Takahashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2021-10-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/3851