Risk factor analysis and spatiotemporal CART model of cryptosporidiosis in Queensland, Australia

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Hu, Wenbiao ^a,b   Mengersen, Kerrie ^a   Tong, Shilu ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREE MODEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; WEATHER; GEOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; QUEENSLAND; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; WEATHER;

EID: 77958571870     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-10-311     Document Type: Article

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