Cook, Gold, and Li (2007, Biometrics 63, 540-549) extended the Kulldorff (1997, Communications in Statistics 26, 1481-1496) scan statistic for spatial cluster detection to survival-type observations.
More and more citizens urge public health authorities to investigate reports of disease excess in their neighbourhood. These environmental concerns are legitimate and it is part of good public health ...
One week after the agency began reporting the locations of COVID-19 outbreaks, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Wednesday it would pull back from reporting the data as it searches ...