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Mapping disease transmission risk : enriching models using biogeography and ecology / / A. Townsend Peterson



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Autore: Peterson A. Townsend (Andrew Townsend), <1964-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Mapping disease transmission risk : enriching models using biogeography and ecology / / A. Townsend Peterson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
Disciplina: 614.4/2
Soggetto topico: Medical mapping
Medical geography
Public health surveillance
Epidemiology
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Ecology and Biogeography""; ""This Book""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part I: Distributional Ecology""; ""2 General Conceptual Framework for Species� Distributions""; ""Historical Background""; ""A General Schema of Distributional Ecology""; ""Disease Systems""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 Status of Data for Understanding Disease Distributions""; ""Disease Case-Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Relevant Biodiversity Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Georeferencing""; ""The Meaning of No Records""; ""Conclusions""
""4 Current Tools for Understanding Disease Distributions""""The Current Toolkit""; ""Shortcomings of the Current Methodologies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part II: Disease Modeling Basics""; ""5 Modifications to the Basic Framework""; ""Disease Peculiarities""; ""Real-World Examples: West Nile Virus and Others""; ""Implications for Disease Modeling""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Modeling Components versus Outcomes""; ""Disease Transmission Systems as Sets of Interacting Species""; ""Black-Box Approaches""; ""Component-Based Approaches""; ""Combined Approaches""; ""Conclusions""
""7 Space-Only versus Space-and-Environment Models""""Examples and Illustrations""; ""Contrasting the Two Types of Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III: Preparing the Data""; ""8 Garbage-In-Garbage-Out Principle""; ""Problems with Data Quality""; ""Biases Created by Geography""; ""Conclusions""; ""9 Assembling Occurrence Data""; ""General Considerations""; ""Obtaining and Improving Occurrence Data""; ""Compatibility and Study Design""; ""Conclusions""; ""10 Assembling Environmental Data""; ""Relevance to Species� Distributions""; ""General Considerations""
""Modifiable Areal Unit Problem""""Specific Data Resources""; ""Conclusions""; ""11 Study Areas and BAM""; ""Defining the Area M""; ""Sampling Considerations""; ""BAM Configurations""; ""Details of M and A for Model Transfers""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part IV: Developing Models""; ""12 Calibrating Niche Models""; ""Introduction to Niche Models""; ""Nuts and Bolts""; ""Calibrating the “Best� Model""; ""Transferring and Extrapolating""; ""Characterizing Ecological Niches""; ""Conclusions""; ""13 Processing Raw Outputs into Useful Maps""; ""Choosing Appropriate Thresholds""
""From Potential to Actual Distributions""""Projecting and Transferring Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""14 Evaluating Niche Models""; ""Controversies and Inappropriate Approaches""; ""Basic Concepts""; ""The Confusion Matrix and Its Implications""; ""Binary Model Evaluation""; ""Continuous Model Evaluation""; ""Model Evaluation and Model Performance""; ""Conclusions""; ""15 Developing Risk Maps""; ""Initial Estimates""; ""Risk Modifiers""; ""Type I versus Type II Errors""; ""Overlay, Testing, and Simulation""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part V: Examples of Applications""; ""16 Identifying Risk Factors""
""Black-Box Disease Ecology""
Titolo autorizzato: Mapping disease transmission risk  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4214-1474-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910460105203321
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