A Spatial Scan Approach to Detecting Focused‐Global Clustering in Case‐Control Data

Clustering of spatial event data around points of interest (such as point‐emitting sources of pollution) can indicate a relationship between the probability of the event's occurrence and the distance from those points of interest. Several focused cluster detection methods have been developed to identify such clustering when it occurs. We present a focused spatial scan cluster detection method for detecting clustering of cases around points of …