The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region (Q800857)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3878743
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    The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3878743

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      The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region (English)
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      1981
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      Let us consider n cases of some disease: \((S_ i,T_ i)_ i\) \((i=1,2,...,n)\), where \(S_ i\in R^ 2\) and \(T_ i\in R^ 1\) is the place and time of onset of i-th case, respectively. The desire of epidemiologists is to obtain powerful methods of detecting clustering of patients.
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      epidemiology
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      space-time clustering
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      asymptotic law of the number of patients
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      clustering of patients
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