Scan Statistics

This monograph on spatial statistics will be of interest to researchers and graduate students in statistics, geology, biology, and quality control.

Applications to many areas of science and technology Gives a broad and up-to-date coverage of exact results, approximations and bounds

Inhalt
I Methods and Applications.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Retrospective Scanning of Events Over Time.- 3 Prospective Scanning of Events Over Time.- 4 Success Scans in a Sequence of Trials.- 5 Higher-Dimensional Scans.- 6 Scan Statistics in DNA and Protein Sequence Analysis.- II Scan Distribution Theory and its Developments.- 7 Approaches Used for Derivations and Approximations.- 8 Scanning N Uniform Distributed Points: Exact Results.- 9 Scanning N Uniform Distributed Points: Bounds.- 10 Approximations for the Conditional Case.- 11 Scanning Points in a Poisson Process.- 12 The Generalized Birthday Problem.- 13 Scan Statistics for a Sequence of Discrete I.I.D. Variates.- 14 Power.- 15 Testing for Clustering.- 16 Two-Dimensional Scan Statistics.- 17 Number of Clusters: Ordered Spacings.- 18 Extensions of the Scan Statistic.- References.