Modelling the trend of bovine spongiform encephalopathy prevalence in France: Use of restricted cubic spline regression in age-period-cohort models to estimate the efficiency of control measures

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 90, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 90-101

  Sala, Carole ^a   Morignat, Eric ^a   Ducrot, Christian ^b   Calavas, Didier ^a  

^a Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

^b EPIA   (France)

Author keywords

Age period cohort analysis; BSE; Categorical analysis; France; Logistic regression; Restricted cubic spline regression

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; MINERAL;

AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BONE MEAL; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CATTLE; COHORT STUDIES; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; FEMALE; FRANCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MINERALS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVIDAE; BOVINAE;

EID: 65649137804     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.prevetmed.2009.04.001     Document Type: Article

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