Method Descriptions

ClusterSeer 2 provides 24 state-of-the-art statistics for evaluating disease clustering in space and time. It also allows you to adjust your analysis for multiple comparisons.

Spatial Cluster Detection

Besag and Newell's method
Bithell's method
new! Cuzick & Edwards' method
Diggle's method
new! Grimson's method
Kulldorff's Spatial Scan
new! local G test
local Moran test
new! Moran's I
new! Oden's Ipop
Ripley's K-function
Score test
Turnbull's method

Temporal Cluster Detection

new! Dat's method
new! Ederer-Myers-Mantel method
new! Empty Cells method
new! Grimson's method
new! Larsen's method
Levin & Kline's Modified CuSum
new! Wallenstein's Scan

Surveillance

Rogerson's method

Space-Time Cluster/Interaction Detection

new! Direction method
new! Grimson's method
new! Jacquez's k-NN
new! Knox's method
Kulldorff's Space-Time Scan
new! Mantel's method

new! indicates new methods in ClusterSeer 2.

The science behind TerraSeer software is well documented.

ClusterSeer is protected by U.S. patents 6,360,184, 6,460,011, 6,704,686, and 6,738,728; other patents pending.