M. Kulldorff, T. Tango, and P. Park, Power comparisons for disease clustering tests, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, vol.42, issue.4, pp.665-684, 2003.
DOI : 10.1016/S0167-9473(02)00160-3

O. Sankoh and H. Becher, Disease cluster methods in epidemiology and application to data on childhood mortality in rural Burkina Faso, Inform Biom Epidemiol Med Biol, vol.33, pp.460-472, 2002.

V. Gomez-rubio, J. Ferrandiz, and A. Lopez, Detecting clusters of disease with R, Journal of Geographical Systems, vol.7, issue.2, pp.189-206, 2003.
DOI : 10.1007/s10109-005-0156-5

C. Robertson and T. Nelson, Review of software for space-time disease surveillance, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.9, issue.1, p.16, 2010.
DOI : 10.1186/1476-072X-9-16

G. Aamodt, S. Samuelsen, and A. Skrondal, A simulation study of three methods for detecting disease clusters, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.5, issue.1, p.15, 2006.
DOI : 10.1186/1476-072X-5-15

A. Ozonoff, C. Jeffery, J. Manjourides, L. White, and M. Pagano, Effect of spatial resolution on cluster detection: a simulation study, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.6, issue.1, p.52, 2007.
DOI : 10.1186/1476-072X-6-52

C. Jeffery, A. Ozonoff, L. White, M. Nuño, and M. Pagano, Power to Detect Spatial Disturbances under Different Levels of Geographic Aggregation, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, vol.16, issue.6, pp.847-854, 2009.
DOI : 10.1197/jamia.M2788

K. Olson, S. Grannis, and K. Mandl, Privacy Protection Versus Cluster Detection in Spatial Epidemiology, American Journal of Public Health, vol.96, issue.11, pp.2002-2008, 2006.
DOI : 10.2105/AJPH.2005.069526

R. Puett, A. Lawson, A. Clark, T. Aldrich, D. Porter et al., Scale and shape issues in focused cluster power for count data, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.4, issue.1, p.8, 2005.
DOI : 10.1186/1476-072X-4-8

S. Goujon-bellec, C. Demoury, A. Guyot-goubin, D. Hémon, and J. Clavel, Detection of clusters of a rare disease over a large territory: performance of cluster detection methods, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.10, issue.1, p.53, 2011.
DOI : 10.1002/sim.2418
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inserm-00637064

G. Jacquez, Cluster morphology analysis. Spat Spatiotemporal Epidemiol, pp.19-29, 2009.

X. Li, J. Wang, W. Yang, Z. Li, and S. Lai, A spatial scan statistic for multiple clusters, Mathematical Biosciences, vol.233, issue.2, pp.135-142, 2011.
DOI : 10.1016/j.mbs.2011.07.004

T. Wang and C. Yue, A binary-based approach for detecting irregularly shaped clusters, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.12, issue.1, p.25, 2013.
DOI : 10.1002/sim.2401

S. Jones and M. Kulldorff, Influence of Spatial Resolution on Space-Time Disease Cluster Detection, PLoS ONE, vol.Anal, issue.1, p.48036, 2012.
DOI : 10.1371/journal.pone.0048036.g005

A. Guttmann, L. Ouchchane, X. Li, I. Perthus, J. Gaudart et al., Performance map of a cluster detection test using extended power, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.12, issue.1, p.47, 2013.
DOI : 10.1016/j.sste.2012.04.004
URL : https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/inserm-00903889

K. Takahashi and T. Tango, An extended power of cluster detection tests, Statistics in Medicine, vol.42, issue.5, pp.841-852, 2006.
DOI : 10.1002/sim.2419

D. Griffith, THE BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM IN SPATIAL STATISTICAL ANALYSIS*, Journal of Regional Science, vol.1, issue.167, pp.377-387, 1983.
DOI : 10.2307/3213243

E. Dreassi and A. Biggeri, Edge effect in disease mapping, Journal of the Italian Statistical Society, vol.82, issue.1, pp.267-283, 1998.
DOI : 10.1007/BF03178935

E. Meter, A. Lawson, N. Colabianchi, M. Nichols, J. Hibbert et al., An evaluation of edge effects in nutritional accessibility and availability measures: a simulation study, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol.9, issue.1, p.40, 2010.
DOI : 10.1186/1476-072X-9-40

H. Blum, A transformation for extracting descriptors of shape. In Models Percept Speech Vis Forms, pp.362-380

R. Thom, Sur le cut-locus d'une vari??t?? plong??e, Journal of Differential Geometry, vol.6, issue.4, pp.577-586, 1972.
DOI : 10.4310/jdg/1214430644

H. Blum, Biological shape and visual science (part I), Journal of Theoretical Biology, vol.38, issue.2, pp.205-287, 1973.
DOI : 10.1016/0022-5193(73)90175-6

F. Wolter, Cut Locus and Medial Axis in Global Shape Interrogation and Representation, Sea Grant College Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993.

M. Kulldorff and N. Nagarwalla, Spatial disease clusters: Detection and inference, Statistics in Medicine, vol.132, issue.8, pp.799-810, 1995.
DOI : 10.1002/sim.4780140809

S. Ribeiro and M. Costa, Optimal selection of the spatial scan parameters for cluster detection: A simulation study, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, vol.3, issue.2, pp.107-120
DOI : 10.1016/j.sste.2012.04.004

C. Chen, A. Kim, M. Ross, J. Wakefield, and E. Venkatraman, SpatialEpi: Performs Various Spatial Epidemiological Analyses, 2013.

T. Keitt, R. Bivand, E. Pebesma, and B. Rowlingson, Rgdal: Bindings for the Geospatial Data Abstraction Library, 2012.