Using integrated nested Laplace approximations for the evaluation of veterinary surveillance data from Switzerland: A case-study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 261-279

  Schrödle, Birgit ^a   Held, Leonhard ^a   Riebler, Andrea ^a   Danuser, Jürg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL VETERINARY OFFICE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Disease mapping; Integrated nested Laplace approximations; Leave one out cross validation; Spatiotemporal models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952214675     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2010.00740.x     Document Type: Article

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