Woodall, William H.; Marshall, J Brooke; Jr, Michael D. … - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A 171 (2008) 1, pp. 223-237
We review some prospective scan-based methods that are used in health-related applications to detect increased rates of mortality or morbidity and to detect bioterrorism or active clusters of disease. We relate these methods to the use of the moving average chart in industrial applications....