Investigation of space-time clusters and geospatial hot spots for the occurrence of tuberculosis in Beijing

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 486-491

  Liu, Y ^a,b   Li, Xia ^a   Wang, W ^a   Li, Z ^a   Hou, M ^a   He, Y ^a   Wu, W ^a   Wang, H ^a   Liang, H ^a   Guo, Xiuhua ^a  

^a CAPITAL MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

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

Author keywords

Geographic distribution; Hot spot analysis; Spatial autocorrelation; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOT SPOT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE TIME CLUSTER; SPATIAL AUTOCORRELATION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84863357407     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.11.0255     Document Type: Article

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