Understanding uncertainties in model-based predictions of Aedes aegypti population dynamics

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2010, Pages

  Xu, Chonggang ^a   Legros, Mathieu ^a   Gould, Fred ^a   Lloyd, Alun L ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AEDES AEGYPTI; ARTHROPOD COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; ENERGY METABOLISM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARAMETRIC TEST; PERU; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDICTION; PUPA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; UNCERTAINTY; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AEDES; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOUSING; HUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AEDES; ANIMALS; DISEASE VECTORS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HOUSING; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PERU; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 78149239565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000830     Document Type: Article

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