Statistical methodological issues in mapping historical schistosomiasis survey data

Acta Tropica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 345-352

  Chammartin, Frédérique ^a,b   Hürlimann, Eveline ^a,b   Raso, Giovanna ^a,b,c   N'Goran, Eliézer K ^c,d   Utzinger, Jürg ^a,b   Vounatsou, Penelope ^a,b  

^a SWISS TROPICAL AND PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c CENTRE SUISSE DE RECHERCHES SCIENTIFIQUES EN CÔTE D'IVOIRE   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^d UNIVERSITÉ FÉLIX HOUPHOUËT BOIGNY   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

Bayesian geostatistics; Block of covariates; C te d'Ivoire; Geostatistical variable selection; Mapping; Schistosomiasis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREVALENCE; GEOSTATISTICS; MAPPING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARASITIC DISEASE;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOSURVEILLANCE; COTE D'IVOIRE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

COTE D'IVOIRE;

SCHISTOSOMA; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI;

BAYESIAN GEOSTATISTICS; BLOCK OF COVARIATES; CÔTE D'IVOIRE; GEOSTATISTICAL VARIABLE SELECTION; MAPPING; SCHISTOSOMIASIS;

ANIMALS; COTE D'IVOIRE; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TOPOGRAPHY, MEDICAL;

EID: 84885477317     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: 18736254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.04.012     Document Type: Article

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