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A spatial scan statistic for ordinal data.

Inkyung Jung1, Martin Kulldorff, Ann C Klassen

  • 1Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave. 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA. inkyung.jung@gmail.com

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This study introduces a new spatial scan statistic for ordinal data, preserving information lost in traditional methods. The novel approach effectively analyzes geographical disease clusters using ordinal data without arbitrary cut-offs.

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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Spatial Epidemiology
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Background:

  • Traditional spatial scan statistics are designed for count data to detect disease clusters.
  • Ordinal or continuous data often require dichotomization for traditional scan statistics, leading to information loss and arbitrary cut-off choices.
  • A need exists for methods that can analyze ordinal data directly, preserving its inherent structure.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel spatial scan statistic specifically designed for ordinal data.
  • To enable the analysis of geographical disease clusters using ordinal data without information loss.
  • To avoid arbitrary cut-off points inherent in dichotomizing ordinal data for traditional methods.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a spatial scan statistic based on the likelihood ratio test.
  • Evaluation of the test statistic using Monte Carlo hypothesis testing.
  • Application of the proposed method to prostate cancer grade and stage data.

Main Results:

  • The proposed spatial scan statistic successfully incorporates the ordinal structure of data.
  • Demonstrated application using real-world prostate cancer data from the Maryland Cancer Registry.
  • Simulation studies assessed the statistical power, sensitivity, and positive predicted value of the new method.

Conclusions:

  • The novel spatial scan statistic offers an effective way to analyze ordinal data in disease cluster detection.
  • This method preserves valuable information lost through data dichotomization.
  • The approach provides a statistically sound alternative for spatial analysis of ordinal health data.