Spatio-temporal patterns of dengue fever cases in Kaoshiung City, Taiwan, 2003–2008

Applied Geography

Volumn 34, Issue , 2012, Pages 587-594

  Hsueh, Ya Hui ^a   Lee, Jay ^b,c   Beltz, Lisa ^c  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Geographically weighted regression modeling; Hot spot analysis; Spatial clusterness; Spatial diffusion; Spatio temporal analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859381511     PISSN: 01436228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apgeog.2012.03.003     Document Type: Article

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