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Identification of Disease-related Spatial Covariance Patterns using Neuroimaging Data
Published on: June 26, 2013
Monitoring changes in spatio-temporal maps of disease
Carmen L Vidal Rodeiro1, Andrew B Lawson
1Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Norman J. Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA. vidal.c@ucles.org.uk
Abstract:
The object of statistical surveillance is to detect a change in a process accurately and quickly as new observations keep adding to the observed part of the process. In this paper we discuss methodological issues in developing a rapid response in a spatial surveillance system. Simple exploratory statistical methods together with more sophisticated methods, based on hierarchical space-time models defined at small area level, are considered.
