Exploratory disease mapping: Kriging the spatial risk function from regional count data

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 3, Issue , 2004, Pages

  Berke, Olaf ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

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EID: 12144256255     PISSN: 1476072X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-3-18     Document Type: Article

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