You will be presented with a citation segment from the section of a research paper. Classify the intent behind this citation by choosing from one of the following categories:

- Method: Cites the paper for its methodology or procedure.
- Background: Cites the paper to provide background information.
- Result: Cites the paper for its findings or results.

Your answer should be a single word from the following list of options: ["Method", "Background", "Result"]. Do not include any other text in your response.

Citation sentence:

A brief review of scan statistics and their applications to ecological studies and environmental sciences is available by Patil and Taillie.18 The Poisson model is appli-
cable in this study of colorectal cancer because the analysis involved small numbers of cases against larger population denominators, as is often the case with cancer.
Method