Developing geostatistical space-time models to predict outpatient treatment burdens from incomplete national data

Geographical Analysis

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-188

  Gething, Peter W ^a   Noor, Abdisalan M ^b   Gikandi, Priscilla W ^b   Hay, Simon I ^b,c   Nixon, Mark S ^a   Snow, Robert W ^b,c   Atkinson, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DEVELOPING WORLD; GEOSTATISTICS; HEALTH SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MALARIA; MODELING; SERVICE PROVISION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 41049100098     PISSN: 00167363     EISSN: 15384632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4632.2008.00718.x     Document Type: Article

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