Creating a reference to a complex emergency situation using time series methods: War in Guinea-Bissau 1998-1999

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 75-86

  Nielsen, Jens ^a,b   Jensen, Henrik ^b,c   Andersen, Per K ^b,c  

^a BANDIM HEALTH PROJECT   (Guinea-Bissau)

^b DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Complex emergency; Forecasting; Mixed models; Mortality; Poisson regression; Time series

Indexed keywords

EID: 12344293720     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0266476042000305168     Document Type: Article

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