Prospective Spatio-Temporal Surveillance Methods for the Detection of Disease Clusters

In epidemiology it is often useful to monitor disease occurrences prospectively to determine the location and time when clusters of disease are forming. This aids in the prevention of illness and injury of the public and is the reason spatio-temporal disease surveillance methods are implemented. Car...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marshall, J. Brooke
Other Authors: Statistics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29639
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11172009-233449/