Spatial analysis of the 2008 influenza outbreak of Hong Kong

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6016 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2010, Pages 374-388

  Lai, Poh Chin ^a   Kwong, Kim Hung ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

GIS; Kernel density mapping; Nearest neighbor distance analysis; Spatial autocorrelation; Standard deviation ellipse

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

ADDITIONAL DATUM; DISEASE ANALYSIS; DISEASE DISTRIBUTION; KERNEL DENSITY; NEAREST NEIGHBOR DISTANCE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATIONS; STANDARD DEVIATION;

SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77952299502     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12156-2_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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