A model for characterizing annual flu cases

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4506 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 37-46

  Nuño, Miriam ^a   Pagano, Marcello ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

REGRESSION MODEL; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURVEILLANCE DATA;

DISEASES;

EID: 37249054523     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-72608-1_4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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