Clinical malaria diagnosis: rule-based classification statistical prototype

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Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Bbosa, Francis ^a   Wesonga, Ronald ^a,b   Jehopio, Peter ^a  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b East African School   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Malaria diagnosis; Rule based classification; Sensitivity; Specificity; Statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977090471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21931801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-2628-0     Document Type: Article

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