Journal
PARASITOLOGY
Volume 139, Issue 14, Pages 1870-1887Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182012000698
Keywords
Spatial epidemiology; parasites; spatial statistics; geostatistics; mapping
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- GlaxoSmithKline
- University of Queensland [41795457]
- Australian National Health and Medical Research Council [631619]
- Wellcome Trust [081673]
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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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