Approximations For Multidimensional Discrete Scan Statistics
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Approximations for Multidimensional Discrete Scan Statistics
In this thesis, we derive accurate approximations and error bounds for the probability distribution of the multidimensional discrete scan statistics. We start by improving some existing results concerning the estimation of the distribution of extremes of 1-dependent stationary sequences of random variables, both in terms of range of applicability and sharpness of the error bound. These estimates play the key role in the approximation process of the multidimensional discrete scan statistics distribution. The presented methodology has two main advantages over the existing ones found in the literature: first, beside the approximation formula, an error bound is also established and second, the approximation does not depend on the common distribution of the observations. For the underlying random field under which the scan process is evaluated, we consider two models: the classical model, of independent and identically distributed observations and a dependent framework, where the observations are generated by a block-factor. In the i.i.d. case, in order to illustrate the accuracy of our results, we consider the particular settings of one, two and three dimensions. A simulation study is conducted where we compare our estimate with other approximations and inequalities derived in the literature. The numerical values are efficiently obtained via an importance sampling algorithm discussed in detail in the text. Finally, we consider a block-factor model for the underlying random field, which consists of dependent data and we show how to extend the approximation methodology to this case. Several examples in one and two dimensions are investigated.
Scan Statistics and Applications
Author: Joseph Glaz
language: en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date: 2012-12-06
The study of scan statistics and their applications to many different scientific and engineering problems have received considerable attention in the literature recently. In addition to challenging theoretical problems, the area of scan statis tics has also found exciting applications in diverse disciplines such as archaeol ogy, astronomy, epidemiology, geography, material science, molecular biology, reconnaissance, reliability and quality control, sociology, and telecommunica tion. This will be clearly evident when one goes through this volume. In this volume, we have brought together a collection of experts working in this area of research in order to review some of the developments that have taken place over the years and also to present their new works and point out some open problems. With this in mind, we selected authors for this volume with some having theoretical interests and others being primarily concerned with applications of scan statistics. Our sincere hope is that this volume will thus provide a comprehensive survey of all the developments in this area of research and hence will serve as a valuable source as well as reference for theoreticians and applied researchers. Graduate students interested in this area will find this volume to be particularly useful as it points out many open challenging problems that they could pursue. This volume will also be appropriate for teaching a graduate-level special course on this topic.