Childhood malaria in the Gambia: A case-study in model-based geostatistics

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 493-506

  Diggle, Peter ^a   Moyeed, Rana ^a   Rowlingson, Barry ^a   Thomson, Madeleine ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Extrabinomial variation; Geostatistics; Insecticide treated bed nets; Malaria; Satellite data; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036408271     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00283     Document Type: Article

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