The Use of Census Migration Data to Approximate Human Movement Patterns across Temporal Scales

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wesolowski, Amy ^a   Buckee, Caroline O ^b   Pindolia, Deepa K ^c,d   Eagle, Nathan ^b,e   Smith, David L ^f,g   Garcia, Andres J ^c   Tatem, Andrew J ^c,g  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^d KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^e NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HUMAN; KENYA; MOBILE PHONE; POPULATION DISPERSION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; POPULATION RESEARCH; TRAVEL;

ALGORITHMS; CELLULAR PHONE; CENSUSES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; KENYA; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RURAL POPULATION; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84872256761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052971     Document Type: Article

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