On the difficulty to delimit disease risk hot spots

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 99-105

  Charras Garrido, M ^a   Azizi, L ^a,b   Forbes, F ^b   Doyle, S ^b   Peyrard, N ^c   Abrial, D ^a  

^a EPIA   (France)

^b NRIA Équipe Mistis   (France)

^c NRA UR 875   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Disease mapping; Epidemiology; Generalized Potts model; Hidden Markov random field; Spatial clustering

Indexed keywords

BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MAPPING; MARKOV CHAIN; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84883049310     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2012.04.005     Document Type: Article

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