Publications
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geographic profiling as a novel spatial tool for targeting infectious disease control. | abstract: geographic profiling is a statistical tool originally developed in criminology to prioritise large lists of suspects in cases of serial crime. here, we use two data sets - one historical and one modern - to show how it can be used to locate the sources of infectious disease. results: first, we re-analyse data from a classic epidemiological study, the 1854 london cholera outbreak. using 321 disease sites as input, we evaluate the locations of 13 neighbourhood water pumps. the broad stre ... | 2011 | 21592339 |