Area Disease Estimation Based on Sentinel Hospital Records - Wang, Jin-Feng; Reis, Ben Y.; Hu, Mao-Gui; Christakos, George; Yang, Wei-Zhong; Sun, Qiao; Li, Zhong-Jie; Li, Xiao-Zhou; Lai, Sheng-Jie; Chen, Hong-Yan; Wang, Dao-Chen (PloS one, 2011)
Keywords: Algorithms; Analysis; Bias; Biology; Case studies; China - epidemiology; Clustering; Dengue fever; Disease control; Disease prevention; Epidemics; Epidemiologic Methods; Epidemiology; Error analysis; Errors; Estimates; Estimators; Feet; Fever; Fever - epidemiology; Geography; Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease - epidemiology; Health; Hospital Records - statistics & numerical data; Hospitals; Humans; Incidence; Information systems; Kriging interpolation; Mathematics; Medical laboratories; Medical records; Medical research; Medicine; Mixtures; Natural resources; Optimization; Population; Problem solving; Risk assessment; Sample size; Sentinel Surveillance; Shade; Spacetime; Statistical analysis; Statistical methods; Studies; Tropical diseases; Variance; White noise; China; Beijing China; New York; United Kingdom--UK; United States--US; Taiwan