Fuzzy epidemics

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 241-259

  Massad, Eduardo ^a   Ortega, Neli Regina Siqueira ^a   Struchiner, Cláudio José ^b   Burattini, Marcelo Nascimento ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Fuzzy clustering; Fuzzy logic; Infectious diseases; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FUZZY SETS; PROBABILITY;

FUZZY EVENTS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0345377487     PISSN: 09333657     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0933-3657(02)00070-2     Document Type: Article

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