This paper evaluates a variation of the spatial scan statistic that aggregates the neighbor structure into the cluster growing process. This proposal allows the detection of arbitrarily shaped clusters and it is an alternative to the original circular shaped scan geometry. The spatial scan statistic is widely used and presents consistent results with real and simulated data sets. In order to te...

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