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cluster analysis

Statistical technique that arranges units or assemblages in terms of the similarities between them, so the most similar are clustered together.


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Recently, more complicated applications for GIS have included the active surveillance of cancer data to detect cancer clustering, a venture requiring coordinated implementation of GIS mapping and statistics-based spatiotemporal cluster analyses (Muravov et al.
Computer-assisted spatiotemporal cluster analyses might help identify and statistically evaluate increased instances of meningococcal disease, thus providing valuable information for further public health investigation and intervention.
Finally, due to small cell sizes of this qualitative investigation, regression and cluster analyses must be interpreted primarily in terms of generating hypotheses for further study.
 
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