Spatiotemporal detection of unusual human population behavior using mobile phone data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Dobra, Adrian ^a   Williams, Nathalie E ^a   Eagle, Nathan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY EVENT DETECTION SYSTEM; FLOODING; GENOCIDE; HUMAN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LEISURE; MEDICAL DEVICE; MOBILE PHONE; RWANDA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VIOLENCE; BEHAVIOR; CONFLICT; DISASTER; EARTHQUAKE; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BEHAVIOR; CELL PHONES; DISASTERS; DISSENT AND DISPUTES; EARTHQUAKES; GENOCIDE; HOLIDAYS; HUMANS; VIOLENCE;

EID: 84961290619     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0120449     Document Type: Article

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