TÉCNICAS DE DETECCIÓN DE CLUSTERS APLICADAS A LA INVESTIGACIÓN PSICOLÓGICA.

Public health professionals are often interested in investigating apparent clusters of human health events or disease clusters. A cluster is an excess of cases in space, time, or in both space and time. Many specific statistical tests have been recently developed to detect disease clusters and they have been successfully applied in medical fields. In this paper, psychology applications are analyzed and an example of suicide is presented. [TRANSLATION]