Accounting for autocorrelation in multi-drug resistant tuberculosis predictors using a set of parsimonious orthogonal eigenvectors aggregated in geographic space

Geospatial Health

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 201-217

  Jacob, Benjamin G ^a   Krapp, Fiorella ^b   Ponce, Mario ^b   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^b   Griffith, Daniel A ^c   Novak, Robert J ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Peru)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; Geographical information system; Multi drug resistant tuberculosis; Peru; Poisson regression analyses; Spatial eigenvector mapping

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953032169     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2010.201     Document Type: Article

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