Lima, Max Sousa de; Duczmal, Luiz Henrique - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 77 (2014) C, pp. 352-370
A methodology based on adaptive likelihood ratios (ALRs) for the detection of emerging disease clusters is presented. The martingale structure of the regular likelihood ratio is preserved by the ALR. The upper limit for the false alarm rate of the proposed method depends only on the quantity of...
