A Bayesian Belief Network for Murray Valley encephalitis virus risk assessment in Western Australia

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Ho, Soon Hoe ^a   Speldewinde, Peter ^a,b   Cook, Angus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b The Albany Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian Belief Network; Murray Valley encephalitis virus; Risk maps; Risk model; Western Australia

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ENCEPHALITIS; HEALTH RISK; NUMERICAL MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; VACCINE; VIRUS;

AUSTRALIA; MURRAY VALLEY;

ANIMALIA; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MURRAY VALLEY ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

BAYES THEOREM; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS, MURRAY VALLEY; ENCEPHALITIS, ARBOVIRUS; GEOGRAPHIC MAPPING; HUMANS; RISK ASSESSMENT; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84957831247     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12942-016-0036-x     Document Type: Article

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