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SUBMITTER: Bauer C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4959802 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bauer Cici C Wakefield Jon J Rue Håvard H Self Steve S Feng Zijian Z Wang Yu Y
Statistics in medicine 20151103 11
In recent years, the availability of infectious disease counts in time and space has increased, and consequently, there has been renewed interest in model formulation for such data. In this paper, we describe a model that was motivated by the need to analyze hand, foot, and mouth disease surveillance data in China. The data are aggregated by geographical areas and by week, with the aims of the analysis being to gain insight into the space-time dynamics and to make short-term predictions, which w ...[more]