Prevalence estimation under heterogeneity in the example of bovine trypanosomosis in Uganda

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 11-23

  Böhning, Dankmar ^a   Greiner, Matthias ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cluster sampling; Mixture distribution; Trypanosomes sp; Variance inflation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; UGANDA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; PREVALENCE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS, BOVINE; UGANDA;

EID: 0032540789     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(98)00076-2     Document Type: Article

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