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Dewey Class	519.5
Title	Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering (EB) / by Toshiro Tango.
Author	Tango, Toshiro
Other name(s)	SpringerLink (Online service)
Publication	New York, NY : Springer , 2010.
Physical Details	VIII, 240 pages : online resource.
Series	Statistics for Biology and Health 1431-8776
ISBN	9781441915726
Summary Note	The development of powerful computing environment and the geographical information system (GIS) in recent decades has thrust the analysis of geo-referenced disease incidence data into the mainstream of spatial epidemiology. This book offers a modern perspective on statistical methods for detecting disease clustering, an indispensable procedure to find a statistical evidence on aetiology of the disease under study. With increasing public health concerns about environmental risks, the need for sophisticated methods for analyzing spatial health events is immediate. Furthermore, the research area of statistical methods for disease clustering now attracts a wide audience due to the perceived need to implement wide-ranging monitoring systems to detect possible health-related events such as the occurrence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), pandemic influenza and bioterrorism As an invaluable resource for a wide range of audience including public health researchers, epidemiologists and biostatistians, this book features: A concise introduction to basic concepts of disease clustering/clusters A historical overview of methods for disease clustering A detailed treatment of selected methods useful for practical investigation of disease clustering Analysis and illustration of methods for a variety of real data sets Toshiro Tango, Ph.D., is the Director of Department of Technology Assessment and Biostatistics of National Institute of Public Health, Japan. He has published a number of methodological and applied articles on various aspects of biostatistics. He is Past President of the Japanese Region of the International Biometric Society. He has served as Associate Editor for several journals including Statistics in Medicine and Biometrics.:
Contents note	Introduction -- Clustering and clusters -- Disease mapping: Visualization of spatial clustering -- Tests for temporal clustering -- General tests for spatial clustering: Regional count data -- General tests for spatial clustering: Case-control point data -- Tests for space-time clustering -- Focused tests for spatial clustering -- Space-time scan statistics.
System details note	Online access to this digital book is restricted to subscription institutions through IP address (only for SISSA internal users).
Internet Site	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1572-6
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Biometrics . Biostatistics . Cancer Research . Epidemiology . Oncology . Public Health/Gesundheitswesen . Statistical methods . Statistics . Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences . Authors: Tango, Toshiro . Corporate Authors: SpringerLink (Online service) . Series: Statistics for Biology and Health . Classification: 519.5 .

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