An Accurate Gaussian Process-Based Early Warning System for Dengue Fever

Proceedings - 2016 5th Brazilian Conference on Intelligent Systems, BRACIS 2016

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages 43-48

  Albinati, Julio ^a   Meira, Wagner ^a   Pappa, Gisele L ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Dengue fever; Early warning system; Gaussian process

Indexed keywords

GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS;

COVARIANCE FUNCTION; DENGUE FEVERS; EARLY WARNING SYSTEM; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; INHERENT COMPLEXITY; MOSQUITO-BORNE DISEASE; NON-PARAMETRIC MODEL; PARAMETRIC MODELS;

GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 85015190149     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/BRACIS.2016.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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