Space-time surveillance in the R package surveillance
Michael Höhle, Robert Koch Institute, Germany
27 April 2010
As the review covers software for space-time disease surveillance I would like to point out that the R package "surveillance" has a function "stcd" dedicated to space-time point referenced data not mentioned in the article.
It implements are space-time cluster detection method developed in Assuncao and Correa (2009), CSDA, 53(8):2817-2830 (see manual for details). The documentation & testing of the function reveals, that its implementation is still somewhat experimental which might be the reason for it missing in the comparison/mentioning, but I would like to make readers aware of this option. Hopefully, the stability and documentation of stcd will improve with time.
Best regards,
Michael Höhle -author of the R package surveillance
International Journal of Health Geographics
Space-time surveillance in the R package surveillance
27 April 2010
As the review covers software for space-time disease surveillance I would like to point out that the R package "surveillance" has a function "stcd" dedicated to space-time point referenced data not mentioned in the article.
It implements are space-time cluster detection method developed in Assuncao and Correa (2009), CSDA, 53(8):2817-2830 (see manual for details). The documentation & testing of the function reveals, that its implementation is still somewhat experimental which might be the reason for it missing in the comparison/mentioning, but I would like to make readers aware of this option.
Hopefully, the stability and documentation of stcd will improve with time.
Best regards,
Michael Höhle
-author of the R package surveillance
Competing interests
None declared