檢測某些地區是否有較高的疾病發生率，亦即群集(Cluster)現象，是近年來空間統計(Spatial Statistics)在流行病學的主要應用之一，常見的偵測方法包括SaTScan (Kulldorff, 1995)及Spatial Scan Statistic (Li et al., 2011)。這些方法多半大都採用一次性偵測，也就是比較疑似群集之內外相對風險(Relative Risk)，如此確實可提高計算效率，同時檢視所有疑似群集。然而，一次性偵測會受到群集外其他發生率較高群集的影響，對於相對風險較小群集的偵測能力過於保守(Zhang et al., 2010)。
本文以多重群集偵測為研究目標，以逐次分析的方式修正SaTScan等群集偵測方法，逐一篩選出發生率較高的顯著群集，並探討逐次分析在使用上的時機及限制。除了透過電腦模擬，測試逐次群集分析的改進效果，我們也分析臺灣地區的癌症死亡率，比較偵測結果的差異。研究發現，逐次群集偵測確實能提高相對風險較小群集的偵測能力，像是在相對風險不大於1.6的群集時尤其有效，但若相對風險大於1.6時，SaTScan的偵測能力不受多重群集的影響。 / Cluster detection, one of the major research topics in spatial statistics, has been applied to identify areas with higher incidence rates and is very popular in many fields such as epidemiology. Many famous cluster detection methods are proposed, such as SaTScan (Kulldorff, 1995) and Spatial Scan Statistic (Li et al., 2011). Most of these methods adapt the idea for comparing the relative risk inside and outside the suspected clusters. Although these methods are efficient computationally, clusters with smaller relative risk are not easy to be detected (Zhang et al, 2010).
The goal of this study is to apply the idea of sequential search into SaTScan, in order to improve the power of detecting clusters with smaller relative risk, and to explore the limitation of sequential method. The computer simulation and empirical study (Taiwan cancer mortality data) are used to evaluate the sequential SaTScan. We found that the Sequential method can improve the power of cluster detection, especially effective for the cases where the clusters with relative risk not greater than 1.6. However, the sequential method also suffers from identifying false clusters.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:CHENGCHI/G0099354013 |
| Creators | 黃柏誠, Huang, Bo Cheng |
| Publisher | 國立政治大學 |
| Source Sets | National Chengchi University Libraries |
| Language | 中文 |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Rights | Copyright © nccu library on behalf of the copyright holders |
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