chapter 1 Introduction and Overview -- chapter 2 Introductory Spatial Statistics: Description and Inference -- chapter 3 Global Statistics -- chapter 4 Local Statistics -- chapter 5 Tests for the Detection of Clustering, Including Scan Statistics -- chapter 6 Retrospective Detection of Changing Spatial Patterns -- chapter 7 Introduction to Statistical Process Control and Nonspatial Cumulative Sum Methods of Surveillance -- chapter 8 Spatial Surveillance and the Monitoring of Global Statistics -- chapter 9 Cusum Charts for Local Statistics and for the Simultaneous Monitoring of Many Regions -- chapter 10 More Approaches to the Statistical Surveillance of Geographic Clustering -- chapter 11 Summary: Associated Tests for Cluster Detection and Surveillance.