Spatial and Temporal Distribution of Plasmodium vivax Malaria in Korea Estimated with a Hierarchical Generalized

Maengseok Noh1, Youngjo Lee, Seungyoung Oh

  • 1Department of Statistics, Pukyong National University, Busan, Korea.

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