Robust assessment of spatial non-stationarity in model associations related to pediatric mortality due to diarrheal disease in Brazil

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 95-105

  Leyk, Stefan ^a,b   Norlund, Petra U ^a   Nuckols, John R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

Disease modeling; Geographically weighted regression; Pediatric diarrhea; Regionalization; Spatial non stationarity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DIARRHEA; HEALTH LITERACY; HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGIONALIZATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; WATER SUPPLY;

BRAZIL; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DIARRHEA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFANT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84861923061     PISSN: 18775845     EISSN: 18775853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sste.2012.04.003     Document Type: Article

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