A systematic review of methodology: Time series regression analysis for environmental factors and infectious diseases

Tropical Medicine and Health

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Imai, Chisato ^a,b   Hashizume, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Environmental factor; GAM; GLM; Infectious disease; Review; Seasonality; Time series; Weather

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHOLERA; DENGUE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENERALIZED ADDITIVE MODEL; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 84925298781     PISSN: 13488945     EISSN: 13494147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2149/tmh.2014-21     Document Type: Review

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