SPATIAL SCAN STATISTICS FOR MODELS WITH OVERDISPERSION AND INFLATED ZEROS
SPATIAL SCAN STATISTICS FOR MODELS WITH OVERDISPERSION AND INFLATED ZEROS
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DOI:
10.5705/ss.2013.220w
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发表时间:
2015-01-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
Pinto, Leticia P.
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作者:
de Lima, Max S.;Duczmal, Luiz H.;Pinto, Leticia P.
The Spatial Scan Statistic is one of the most important methods for detecting and monitoring spatial disease clusters. Usually it is assumed that disease cases follow a Poisson or Binomial distribution. In practice, however, case count datasets frequently present an excess of zeroes and/or overdispersion, resulting in the violation of those commonly used models, increasing type I error occurrence. This paper describes a modification of the Spatial Scan Statistic with the Zero Inflated Double Poisson (ZIDP) model to reduce type I error, accommodating simultaneously an excess of zeroes and overdispersion. The null and alternative model parameters are estimated by the Expectation-Maximization algorithm and the p-value is obtained through the Fast Double Bootstrap Test. An application is presented for Hanseniasis data in the Brazilian Amazon.