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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol. 2012 Sep 24;3(4):297–310. doi: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.09.002

Table 2.

Statistics to evaluate the overall significance of the size of the cluster sets.

Cluster type Cluster description Test statistic Probability of test statistic
it Local case-time
Qit
P(QitH0)
i Life course
Qi
P(QiH0)
t Temporal case clustering
Qt
P(QtH0)
à iti |
A
P(AH0)=P(QitH0)P(QiH0)
itt |
B
P(BH0)=P(QitH0)P(QtH0)
ti
C
P(CH0)=P(QtH0)P(QiH0)
itit
D
P(DH0)=P(AH0)P(BH0)