Forecasting clinical disease in pigs: Comparing a naive and a Bayesian approach

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 64, Issue 2-4, 2004, Pages 85-100

  Baadsgaard, Niels Peter ^a   Højsgaard, Søren ^a   Gröhn, Yrjö T ^b   Schukken, Ynte H ^b  

^a DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methodology; Clinical decision making; Clinical forecasting; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DENMARK; FEMALE; FORECASTING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FORECASTING; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

SUS SCROFA;

EID: 4344684091     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2004.06.001     Document Type: Article

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