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Given N events occurring over time, define an n:t cluster as n consecutive events all contained within an interval of length t. In this paper we derive the expectation, variance and approximate distribution of the number of n:t clusters. The results have applications in epidemiological studies of rare diseases.
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Glaz et al. (1983) studied this question.
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