The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region (Q800857)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3878743
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| English | The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region |
scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3878743 |
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The asymptotic law of the number of patients in a space-time region (English)
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1981
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Let us consider n cases of some disease: \((S_ i,T_ i)_ i\) \((i=1,2,...,n)\), where \(S_ i\in R^ 2\) and \(T_ i\in R^ 1\) is the place and time of onset of i-th case, respectively. The desire of epidemiologists is to obtain powerful methods of detecting clustering of patients.
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epidemiology
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space-time clustering
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asymptotic law of the number of patients
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clustering of patients
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