Modelling the effect of climate change on prevalence of malaria in western Africa

Statistica Neerlandica

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 388-400

  Jackson, Monica C ^a   Johansen, Laura ^a   Furlong, Cathy ^a   Colson, Abigail ^b   Sellers, Kimberly F ^c  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE   (United States)

^c GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease; Spatial regression model; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651497889     PISSN: 00390402     EISSN: 14679574     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9574.2010.00453.x     Document Type: Article

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