Spatial targeting of infectious disease control: Identifying multiple, unknown sources

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 647-655

  Verity, Robert ^a   Stevenson, Mark D ^a   Rossmo, D Kim ^b   Nichols, Richard A ^a   Le Comber, Steven C ^a  

^a QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Criminology; Dirichlet process mixture; Epidemiology; Geographic profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904304590     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12190     Document Type: Article

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