The spatial structure of epidemic emergence: Geographical aspects of poliomyelitis in north-eastern USA, July-October 1916

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 168, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 701-722

  Trevelyan, Barry ^a   Smallman Raynor, Matthew ^a   Cliff, Andrew D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diffusion; Emergent diseases; Geography; Poliomyelitis; Spatial association analysis; USA

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844505959     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00372.x     Document Type: Article

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