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Evaluating cluster alarms: a space-time scan statistic and brain cancer in Los Alamos, New Mexico.
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OBJECTIVES: This article presents a space-time scan statistic, useful for evaluating space-time cluster alarms, and illustrates the method on a recent brain cancer cluster alarms in Los Alamos, NM. METHODS: The space-time scan statistic accounts for the preselection bias and multiple testing inherent in a cluster alarm. Confounders and time trends can be adjusted for. RESULTS: The observed excess of brain cancer in Los Alamos was not statistically significant. CONCLUSIONS: The space-time scan statistic is useful as a screening tool for evaluating which cluster alarms merit further investigation and which clusters are probably chance occurrences.
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- Kulldorff, M., Athas, W. F., Feurer, E. J., Miller, B. A., & Key, C. R.
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
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- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 1998-09
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 9
- Pages
- 1377-1380
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
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- W2118946263
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- 659
- References
- 9
- FWCI
- 2.92
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- journal article
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- en
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