Bayesian spatial modelling and the significance of agricultural land use to scrub typhus infection in Taiwan

Geospatial Health

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 229-239

  Wardrop, Nicola A ^a   Kuo, Chi Chien ^a   Wang, Hsi Chieh ^b   Clements, Archie C A ^c   Lee, Pei Fen ^d   Atkinson, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b Centres for Disease Control   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Conditionally autoregressive model; Disease ecology; Orientia tsutsugamushi; Scrub typhus; Spatial epidemiology; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MICROBIOLOGY; MITE; RISK FACTOR; SCRUB TYPHUS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MITES; RISK FACTORS; SCRUB TYPHUS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84896506523     PISSN: 18271987     EISSN: 19707096     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4081/gh.2013.69     Document Type: Article

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