Developments in statistical inference when assessing spatiotemporal disease clustering with the tau statistic

The tau statistic τ uses geolocation and, usually, symptom onset time to assess global spatiotemporal clustering from epidemiological data. We test different methods that could bias the clustering range estimate based on the statistic or affect its apparent precision, by comparison with a...

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Main Authors: Pollington, TM, Tildesley, MJ, Hollingsworth, TD, Chapman, LAC
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020