Network analysis of the German cattle trade net - Preliminary results;Beschreibung des Handels mit Rindern in Deutschland mittels Netzwerkanalyse Ergebnisse von Voruntersuchungen : Network analysis of the German cattle trade net -Preliminary results

Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift

Volumn 122, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 193-198

  Lentz, Hartmut ^a   Kasper, Maria ^a   Selhorst, Thomas ^a  

^a Friedrich Loeffler lnstitut   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cattle trade net; Centrality measures; Epidemiology; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHY; GERMANY;

ANIMALIA; BOS;

EID: 67249121409     PISSN: 00059366     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2376/0005-9366-122-193     Document Type: Article

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