Partitioning the aggregation of parasites on hosts into intrinsic and extrinsic components via an extended poisson-gamma mixture model

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Calabrese, Justin M ^a,b   Brunner, Jesse L ^c,d   Ostfeld, Richard S ^c  

^a SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c CARY INSTITUTE OF ECOSYSTEM STUDIES   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXTENDED POISSON GAMMA MIXTURE MODEL; HOME RANGE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; IXODES SCAPULARIS; LARVA; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE LOAD; PARASITE VECTOR; PEROMYSCUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TICK; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; MICE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; TICKS;

EID: 84055207520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029215     Document Type: Article

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