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In this chapter, we shall show several spatial point patterns in a hypothetical area of a square 10 km on each side to understand what “clustering” or “a cluster” means and to get a basic idea of how to approach detection of clustering or clusters.
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Tango, T. (2010). Clustering and Clusters. In: Statistical Methods for Disease Clustering. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1572-6_2
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