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Confusion related to Kulldorff's scan statistics
I was reading this paper related to Bayesian spatial scan statistics where I came across the Kulldorff's scan statistics.
I have attached the screenshot of the paper. My objective is to find a ...
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Disease forecasting - counts or rates?
I'm developing a forecasting model for an infectious disease for a hospital and wanting to understand if I should use disease counts or rates (based on population or total clinic visits). What are the ...
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Associating a probability to disease propagation in regions of a map
I am trying to model disease propagation. I am considering a map separated into regions. One region is infected. There is data over time, with the number of people travelling into and out of the ...
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How do I calculate and compare incidence of infection between age-groups
We work on cervical cancer detection and we started accumulating data in 2006 by performing HPV testing on all our samples. We have accumulated a data set with almost 400,000 women. Data enters the ...
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What approach could be used for modelling virus infections?
I'm a physics graduate who ended up doing infosec so most of the statistics I ever learned is useful for thermodynamics. I'm currently trying to think of a model for working out how many of a ...
