An eigenspace approach for detecting multiple space-time disease clusters: Application to measles hotspots detection in khyber-pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

• Main Authors: Ullah, S., Daud, H., Dass, S.C., Hadi, F.-T., Khalil, A.
• Format: Article
• Published: Public Library of Science 2018
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85048760498&doi=10.1371%2fjournal.pone.0199176&partnerID=40&md5=5cb204931ec13aab8a6ea5989bf9795e; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/21539/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Identifying the abnormally high-risk regions in a spatiotemporal space that contains an unexpected disease count is helpful to conduct surveillance and implement control strategies. The EigenSpot algorithm has been recently proposed for detecting space-time disease clusters of arbitrary shapes with...