Improving the modeling of disease data from the government surveillance system: a case study on malaria in the Brazilian Amazon.

The study of the effect of large-scale drivers (e.g., climate) of human diseases typically relies on aggregate disease data collected by the government surveillance network. The usual approach to analyze these data, however, often ignores a) changes in the total number of individuals examined, b) th...

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Main Authors: Denis Valle, James Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3820532?pdf=render