An inverse relationship between the strength of GAM criticism and the performance of the preferred methods!
The widely favoured Bayesian Mapping was dropped altogether as it was highly misleading!
The ISD’s Methods were poor and unreliable clustering detectors and were not designed to find clusters
Besag-Newell’s modified GAM was untrustworthy with a high false alarm rate
Diggle’s much vaunted K Functions were next to useless for non-random data!