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SpatialEpi

kulldorffMC

Compute permutation distribution for kulldorff method

Description

Given a matrix of permuted cases, return the likelihood ratio test statistic for each permuation

Usage

kulldorffMC(permutedCaseMatrix, expectedCases, nearestNeighbors, nZones, logLkhdType)

Arguments

`permutedCaseMatrix`	matrix of `n.sim` rows of permuted cases
`expectedCases`	expected cases for each area
`nearestNeighbors`	see `create_geo_objects`
`nZones`	number of single zones
`logLkhdType`	type of lkhd to use: either "poisson" or "binomial"

Value

Vector of length n.sim of LRT statistics

Author(s)

Albert Y. Kim

References

SatScan: Software for the spatial, temporal, and space-time scan statistics http://www.satscan.org/ Kulldorff, M. (1997) A spatial scan statistic. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 26, 1481–1496.

Kulldorff M. and Nagarwalla N. (1995) Spatial disease clusters: Detection and Inference. Statistics in Medicine, 14, 799–810.