Among the many tools suited to detect local clusters in group-level data, Kulldorff–Nagarwalla’s spatial scan statistic …

Bootstrap is the standard method in the spatial scan test. However, because the spatial scan statistic lacks … processes with a few weak regularity conditions, the limiting distribution of the spatial scan statistic, which can provide a … theoretical basis for the spatial scan test, is derived. It is shown that the limiting distribution of the spatial scan statistic …