Cluster analysis is a big, sprawling field. This review paper cannot hope to fully survey the
territory. Instead, it focuses on hierarchical agglomerative clustering, k‐means clustering …

Background The US confronted a “triple-demic” of influenza, respiratory syncytial virus
(RSV), and COVID-19 in the winter of 2022, leading to increased respiratory infections and a …

Vector-borne diseases (VBDs) infect over one billion people and are responsible for over
one million deaths each year, globally. Chikungunya (CHIK) and Dengue Fever (DENF) are …

In 2021–2022, there were numerous outbreaks of lumpy skin disease (LSD) affecting cattle
farms across Thailand. This circumstance was the country's first encounter with an LSD …

The recombinant herpes zoster vaccine (RZV), approved as a 2-dose series in the United
States in October 2017, has proven highly effective and generally safe. However, a small …

SaTScan can be used for discrete as well as continuous scan statistics. For discrete scan
statistics the geographical locations where data are observed are non-random and fixed by …

Recent metabolic and genetic research has demonstrated that risk for specific histological
types of lung cancer varies in relation to cigarette smoking and obesity. This study …

Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne viral infection of humans caused by a virus of the
Flaviviridae family. In Malaysia the annual incidence risk of dengue fever for the period 2000 …

There has long been a demand for cancer incidence data at a fine geographic resolution for
use in etiologic hypothesis generation and testing, methodological evaluation and teaching …

In this paper, a general overview on spatial and spatiotemporal ARCH models is provided.
In particular, we distinguish between three different spatial ARCH-type models. In addition to …