A Tree-Based Scan Statistic for Database Disease Surveillance

DOI10.1111/1541-0420.00039zbMath1210.62177WikidataQ47680245 ScholiaQ47680245MaRDI QIDQ3079117

Stephen J. Walsh, Zixing Fang, Martin Kulldorff

Publication date: 1 March 2011

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1541-0420.00039

zbMATH Keywords

data mining; epidemiology; exploratory analysis; occupation; silicosis; tree variable

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

92C50: Medical applications (general)

68P20: Information storage and retrieval of data

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