Reducing a spatial database to its effective dimensionality for logistic-regression analysis of incidence of livestock disease

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 207-218

  Duchateau, L ^a   Kruska, R L ^a   Perry, B D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL LIVESTOCK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Cattle parasitological diseases; Data management; Logistic regression; Principal components; Theileria parva; Varimax rotation

Indexed keywords

ACARI; BOS TAURUS; THEILERIA PARVA;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLIMATE; ENVIRONMENT; EPIDEMIC; FACTUAL DATABASE; INCIDENCE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEILERIA PARVA; ZIMBABWE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLIMATE; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ENVIRONMENT; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; THEILERIA PARVA; THEILERIASIS; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 0031242423     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(97)00019-6     Document Type: Article

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