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Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications
The distributions of parasitic diseases are determined by complex factors, including many that are distributed in space. A variety of statistical methods are now readily accessible to researchers providing opportunities for describing and ultimately understanding and predicting spatial distributions...
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Cambridge University Press
2012
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526959/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23036435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182012000698 |
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author | PULLAN, RACHEL L. STURROCK, HUGH J. W. SOARES MAGALHÃES, RICARDO J. CLEMENTS, ARCHIE C. A. BROOKER, SIMON J. |
author_facet | PULLAN, RACHEL L. STURROCK, HUGH J. W. SOARES MAGALHÃES, RICARDO J. CLEMENTS, ARCHIE C. A. BROOKER, SIMON J. |
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description | The distributions of parasitic diseases are determined by complex factors, including many that are distributed in space. A variety of statistical methods are now readily accessible to researchers providing opportunities for describing and ultimately understanding and predicting spatial distributions. This review provides an overview of the spatial statistical methods available to parasitologists, ecologists and epidemiologists and discusses how such methods have yielded new insights into the ecology and epidemiology of infection and disease. The review is structured according to the three major branches of spatial statistics: continuous spatial variation; discrete spatial variation; and spatial point processes. |
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spelling | pubmed-35269592013-01-09 Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications PULLAN, RACHEL L. STURROCK, HUGH J. W. SOARES MAGALHÃES, RICARDO J. CLEMENTS, ARCHIE C. A. BROOKER, SIMON J. Parasitology Research Article The distributions of parasitic diseases are determined by complex factors, including many that are distributed in space. A variety of statistical methods are now readily accessible to researchers providing opportunities for describing and ultimately understanding and predicting spatial distributions. This review provides an overview of the spatial statistical methods available to parasitologists, ecologists and epidemiologists and discusses how such methods have yielded new insights into the ecology and epidemiology of infection and disease. The review is structured according to the three major branches of spatial statistics: continuous spatial variation; discrete spatial variation; and spatial point processes. Cambridge University Press 2012-12 2012-07-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3526959/ /pubmed/23036435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182012000698 Text en Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 The online version of this article is published within an Open Access environment subject to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike licence <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/>. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use. |
spellingShingle | Research Article PULLAN, RACHEL L. STURROCK, HUGH J. W. SOARES MAGALHÃES, RICARDO J. CLEMENTS, ARCHIE C. A. BROOKER, SIMON J. Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title | Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title_full | Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title_fullStr | Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title_full_unstemmed | Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title_short | Spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
title_sort | spatial parasite ecology and epidemiology: a review of methods and applications |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3526959/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23036435 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182012000698 |
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