Tree-Based Scan Statistics

Implementation of unconditional Bernoulli Scan Statistic developed by Kulldorff et al. (2003) for hierarchical tree structures. Tree-based Scan Statistics are an exploratory method to identify event clusters across the space of a hierarchical tree.

Description

This package is an R implementation of tree-based scan statistics as described in Kulldorff et al. (2013) or Kulldorff et al. (2003). To get started, please take a look at the vignette or check the documentation of the main functions:

• TreeMineR()
• create_tree()
• cut_the_tree()

The package also includes the following pre-defined hierarchical trees, which can be used out of the box. Please check their help files for more information. - icd_10_se - atc_codes

Installation

For installing the package from CRAN please use

install.packages("TreeMineR")

If you would like to use the latest development version from GitHub please use

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("entjos/TreeMineR")

Bugs

If you find any bugs or have any suggestion please don’t hesitate to file an issue on GitHub.