Weighted Normal Spatial Scan Statistic for Heterogeneous Population Data
异质总体数据的加权正态空间扫描统计量
In geographical spatial epidemiology and disease surveillance, all the existing spatial scan methods for cluster detection using continuous data are designed for evaluating clusters of individuals and analyzing individual-level data. Motivated by growing demands to study the spatial heterogeneity of continuous measures in population data, such as mortality rates, survival rates, average body mass indexes and pollution at state, county, and census tract levels, we propose a…