Linking process to pattern: Estimating spatiotemporal dynamics of a wildlife epidemic from cross-sectional data

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 221-240

  Heisey, Dennis M ^a   Osnas, Erik E ^b,g   Cross, Paul C ^c   Joly, Damien O ^d   Langenberg, Julia A ^e   Miller, Michael W ^f  

^a NATIONAL WILDLIFE HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Wildlife Conservation Society   (Canada)

^e WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^f NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoregressive; Bayesian; Chronic wasting disease; Current status data; CWD; Frailty; Lexis diagram; Markov chain Monte Carlo; MCMC; Odocoileus virginianus; Penalized likelihood; Prion; USA; Whitetailed deer; Wisconsin

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DEER; DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INVERSE PROBLEM; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRION DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

CERVIDAE; LEXIS; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 77951755952     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-0052.1     Document Type: Article

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