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Techniques for analysis of disease clustering in space and in time in veterinary epidemiology

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Ward, M. P. and Carpenter, T. E. (2000) Techniques for analysis of disease clustering in space and in time in veterinary epidemiology. Preventive Veterinary Medicine, 45 (3/4). pp. 257-284. ISSN 0167-5877

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Article Link: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-5877(00)00133-1

Abstract

Techniques to describe and investigate clustering of disease in space — the nearest-neighbour test, autocorrelation, Cuzick-and-Edwards’ test and the spatial scan statistic — and in time — the Ederer–Myers–Mantel test and the temporal scan statistic — are reviewed. The application of these techniques in veterinary epidemiology is demonstrated by the analysis of a data set describing the occurrence of blowfly strike — both body strike and breech strike — between August 1998 and May 1999 in 33 commercial sheep flocks located within two local government areas of southeastern Queensland, Australia. By applying a combination of these methods, the occurrence of blowfly strike in the study area is well-characterised in both space and time. Guidelines for investigating disease clusters in veterinary epidemiology are discussed.

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Subjects:Veterinary medicine > Veterinary epidemiology. Epizootiology
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