Modeling seasonality in space-time infectious disease surveillance data

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 824-843

  Held, Leonhard ^a   Paul, Michaela ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Infectious diseases; Multivariate time series of counts; Proper scoring rules; Seasonality; Spatiotemporal data

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; TIME SERIES;

DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES; MULTIVARIATE TIME SERIES OF COUNT; PROPER SCORING RULES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEASONALITY; SPACETIME; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DATA; SURVEILLANCE DATA;

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS;

EID: 84867946901     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.201200037     Document Type: Article

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