A study on detecting multi-dimensional clusters of infectious diseases

Dili Xuebao/Acta Geographica Sinica

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 435-443

  Liao, Yilan ^a,b   Wang, Jinfeng ^b   Yang, Weizhong ^c   Li, Zhongjie ^c   Jin, Lianmei ^c   Lai, Shengjie ^c   Zheng, Xiaoying ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^c CHINESE CENTER FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony clustering algorithm; Bayesian Gamma Poisson model; Cluster; Infectious diseases; Spatial analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREVALENCE; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84861141205     PISSN: 03755444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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