Visualizing the impact of space-time uncertainties on dengue fever patterns

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1107-1127

  Delmelle, Eric ^a   Dony, Coline ^a   Casas, Irene ^b   Jia, Meijuan ^a   Tang, Wenwu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

dengue fever; parallel GIS; permutations; space time kernel density estimation (STKDE); space time uncertainty

Indexed keywords

DENGUE FEVER; GIS; GPS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CALI; COLOMBIA; VALLE DEL CAUCA;

EID: 84899125995     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2013.871285     Document Type: Article

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