Using variable importance measures from causal inference to rank risk factors of schistosomiasis infection in a rural setting in China

Epidemiologic Perspectives and Innovations

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Sudat, Sylvia E K ^a   Carlton, Elizabeth J ^a   Seto, Edmund Y W ^a   Spear, Robert C ^a   Hubbard, Alan E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

ARTICLE; CHINA; HUMAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

EID: 77955236074     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17425573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-5573-7-3     Document Type: Article

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