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In a search for evidence that a disease such as leukemia is indeed an infectious disease, perhaps of viral etiology, interest will focus on whether or not the disease cases occur in clusters. In this case, a cluster will constitute a group of cases that are close both in space and time, which is called space-time clustering or space-time
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Tango, T. (2010). Tests for Space-Time Clustering. 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_7
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