From the reviews: “There is an increasing awareness nowadays of environmental health risks, including bioterrorism, together with the development of modern data collection systems. This combination provides a major impetus for the sorts of studies described in this book. … Overall, the book is very practically oriented. … The explanations of the methods are very clear and detailed and ... Read morethe discussion is informative. … the book will be of good use to the novice coming into the subject and also for the initiated wishing to broaden their perspective.” (Martin Crowder, International Statistical Review, Vol. 79 (2), 2011) “The first introductory chapter informs the reader about the basic classification of disease clustering (temporal clustering, spatial clustering, and space–time clustering), the data used in examples, and software (like R, SaTScan, FleXScan, Splancs). … The suitable audience are experts’ communities either in the medical field or in the mathematical modeling field with the focus on data mining and clustering.” (Adriana Hornikova, Technometrics, Vol. 53 (2), May, 2011) Show Less