different evaluation criteria, but the circular scan statistic also performs well. If the emphasis is on statistical power for …

) methodology, is used in conjunction with the Semiparametric testing procedure.Monte Carlo power studies show that for binary data … high power in detecting unknown hot-spot clusters. When the dataare not binary, the Semiparametric methodology is still … statistic, in order to achieve power comparable to that achieved by the Semiparametric method. Kulldorff's method with an …

between bias and variance. We present simulated results showing that its power performance as compared to the usual scan …

the family of power divergence (PD) goodness-of-fit statistics, the classical spatial scan test is extended to the family …