Evaluating Spatial Interaction Models for Regional Mobility in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Published in PLoS Comput Biol on July 09, 2015

Authors

Amy Wesolowski1, Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara2, Nathan Eagle3, Andrew J Tatem4, Caroline O Buckee1

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America; Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
2: Department of Medicine, Duke University and Duke Global Health Institute, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
3: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America; College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
4: Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom; Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America.

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