Recommended Readings

 

General Statistical Theory:

Kulldorff M: A spatial scan statistic. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 1997;26:1481-1496.

Spatial Scan Statistic,Bernoulli Model:

Kulldorff M, Nagarwalla N. Spatial disease clusters: Detection and Inference.Statistics in Medicine, 1995;14:799-810.

Spatial Scan Statistic,Poisson Model:

Hjalmars U, Kulldorff M, Gustafsson G, Nagarwalla N. Childhood leukemia in Sweden: Using GIS and a spatial scan statistic for cluster detection. Statistics in Medicine, 1996;15:707-715. Kulldorff M, Feuer E, Miller B, Freedman L: Breast cancer in northeastern United States: A geographical analysis. American Journal of Epidemiology, 1997;146:161-170.

Spare-Time Scan Statistic, Poisson Model:

Kulldorff M, Athas WF, Feuer EJ, Miller BA, Key CR. Evaluating cluster alarms: A space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos. American Journal of Public Health, 1998; in press.


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