Towards realtime spatiotemporal prediction of district level meningitis incidence in sub-Saharan Africa

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 177, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 661-678

  Stanton, Michelle C ^a   Agier, and Lydiane ^b   Taylor, Benjamin M ^b   Diggle, Peter J ^b  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic generalized linear models; Epidemic control; Markov chain; Meningitis belt; Meningococcal meningitis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84901275790     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssa.12033     Document Type: Article

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