Generalized Scan Statistics for Disease Surveillance

Pei-Sheng Lin

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2014, vol. 41, issue 3, 791-808

Abstract: type="main" xml:id="sjos12063-abs-0001"> In applying scan statistics for disease surveillance, it would be valuable to have an integrated model that simultaneously includes environmental covariates and spatial correlation. In this paper, a generalized scan statistics under quasi-likelihood functions is proposed to address this issue. We use a two-step estimation process to obtain estimates of coefficients and adapt a bootstrapping method for the minimal p-value to address the multiple-testing problem. Under suitable conditions, the proposed method is consistent and can control the type I error rate. Simulations and applications to real data sets are used to evaluate the method.

Date: 2014
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