Multiple Spatio-Temporal Cluster Detection for Case Event Data: An Ordering-Based Approach |
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Authors: | C Demattei L Cucala |
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Institution: | 1. Medical Information Department , Nimes University Hospital Center , Nimes , France christophe.demattei@chu-nimes.fr;3. Institute of Mathematics and Modelling of Montpellier , Montpellier , France |
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Abstract: | This article introduces a spatio-temporal distance which allows the extension of the spatial cluster detection methods of Demattei et al. (2007
Demattei , C. ,
Molinari , N. ,
Daures , J. P. ( 2007 ). Arbitrarily shaped multiple spatial cluster detection for case event data . Computat. Statist. Data Anal. 51 ( 8 ): 3931 – 3945 . Google Scholar]) and Cucala (2009
Cucala , L. ( 2009 ). A flexible spatial scan test for case event data . Computat. Statist. Data Anal. 53 ( 8 ): 2843 – 2850 .Crossref], Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar]). A review of these methods is given before we define a spatio-temporal distance. Then this distance is used for detecting spatio-temporal clusters. These ordering-based methods are compared to the scan statistic by a simulation study. The scan procedure is more powerful but it detects fewer true positives due to its lack of flexibility. Those techniques are applied to a seismic data set. This article highlights two advantages of the ordering-based methods: their flexibility and their low computational demand. |
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Keywords: | Case event data Cluster detection Ordering-based methods Spatio-temporal distance |
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