Modelling the geographical distribution of co-infection risk from single-disease surveys

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1761-1776

  Schur, Nadine ^a,b   Gosoniu, L ^a,b   Raso, G ^a,b,c   Utzinger, J ^a,b   Vounatsou, P ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Bayesian geostatistics; Co infection; Multinomial model; Multiple infection; Shared component model

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; MULTINOMIAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SHARED COMPONENT MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENDEMIC DISEASES; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOOKWORM INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 79957929670     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4243     Document Type: Article

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