Spatial Cluster Detection with Social Media Mobility Patterns

Standard spatial cluster detection methods used in public health surveillance assign each disease case to a single location (typically, the patient's home address), aggregate locations to small areas, and monitor the number of cases in each area over ...

The spatial scan test, which is often carried out by maximizing a likelihood ratio-based statistic over a collection of cluster candidates, is widely used in cluster detection and disease surveillance. As the likelihood ratio statistic ...

Land surface albedo is a key parameter of the Earth’s climate system. It has high variability in space, time, and land cover and it is among the most important variables in climate models. Extensive large-scale estimates can help model calibration and ...