uls.zones

<code>uls.zones</code> determines the unique zones obtained by
implementing the ULS (Upper Level Set) test of Patil and
Taillie (2004).

Implements statistical methods for analyzing the counts of areal data, with a focus on the detection of spatial clusters and clustering. The package has a heavy emphasis on spatial scan methods, which were first introduced by Kulldorff and Nagarwalla (1995) <doi:10.1002/sim.4780140809> and Kulldorff (1997) <doi:10.1080/03610929708831995>.

Joshua French

smerc

Statistical Methods for Regional Counts

Mohammad Meysami

uls.zones function

<dl><dt>cases</dt>
<dd>The number of cases observed in each region.</dd>
<dt>pop</dt>
<dd>The population size associated with each
region.</dd>
<dt>w</dt>
<dd>A binary spatial adjacency matrix for the
regions.</dd>
<dt>ubpop</dt>
<dd>The upperbound of the proportion of the
total population to consider for a cluster.</dd>
<dt>check.unique</dt>
<dd>A logical value indicating whether a
check for unique values should be determined. The
default is <code>FALSE</code>. This is unlikely to make a
practical different for most real data sets.</dd></dl>

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Determine sequence of ULS zones. — uls.zones

<dl>

<dt>cases</dt>
<dd>The number of cases observed in each region.</dd>


<dt>pop</dt>
<dd>The population size associated with each
region.</dd>


<dt>w</dt>
<dd>A binary spatial adjacency matrix for the
regions.</dd>


<dt>ubpop</dt>
<dd>The upperbound of the proportion of the
total population to consider for a cluster.</dd>


<dt>check.unique</dt>
<dd>A logical value indicating whether a
check for unique values should be determined. The
default is <code>FALSE</code>. This is unlikely to make a
practical different for most real data sets.</dd>

</dl>

uls.zones: Determine sequence of ULS zones.

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