Developing a Clustering-Based Empirical Bayes Analysis Method for Hotspot Identification

Table 1

Classification-based EB method for HSID.

Step	Description
	Use the GFMNB- model, -means algorithm, or hierarchical clustering algorithm to cluster the data into groups
	Separate the data into groups based on the results of clustering
	Estimate NB regression models, one for each of the subgroups, and use the corresponding SPF to get EB estimates for each site
	Aggregate the EB estimates for all sites, rank the sites, and identify hotspots