Measuring Spatial Dependence for Infectious Disease Epidemiology.

Global spatial clustering is the tendency of points, here cases of infectious disease, to occur closer together than expected by chance. The extent of global clustering can provide a window into the spatial scale of disease transmission, thereby providing insights into the mechanism of spread, and i...

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Main Authors: Justin Lessler, Henrik Salje, M Kate Grabowski, Derek A T Cummings
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4873007?pdf=render