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Letter: Detection of overall space-time clustering in a non-uniformly distributed population by Jukka Ranta, J. Pitkäniemi, M. Karvonen, E. Virtala, J. Rusanen, A. Colpaert, A. Naukkarinen and J. Tuomilehto, Statistics in Medicine, 15, 2561–2572 (1996)

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Weight: 154 KB
Volume: 16
Category: Article
ISSN: 0277-6715
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0258(19971130)16:22<2621::aid-sim697>3.0.co;2-p

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Ranta et al. propose a test for space-time clustering by generalizing Whittemore et al.'s test. However, I think this test is inappropriate judging by several important points discussed below.

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