Synthesizing Waterborne Infection Prevalence for Comparative Analysis of Cluster Detection Methods

When water is an important direct or indirect facilitator in the transmission of disease it is reasonable to expect that clusters of disease may occur near or along these water sources. As such, searching for water-related disease clusters can be an important part of spatial analysis process, particularly when there may be unknown spatial heterogeneities in the relationship between proximity to water and illness. We illustrate the value of …