Using individual-level models for infectious disease spread to model spatio-temporal combustion dynamics

Bayesian Analysis

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 615-638

  Vrbik, Irene ^a   Deardony, Rob ^a   Fengz, Zeny ^a   Gardner, Abbie ^a   Braun, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Fire spread modelling; Individual level models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Spatio temporal dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865846317     PISSN: 19360975     EISSN: 19316690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/12-BA721     Document Type: Article

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