Spatial Variable Selection and An Application to Virginia Lyme Disease Emergence
空间变量选择及其在弗吉尼亚州莱姆病出现研究中的应用
Lyme disease is an infectious disease, that is, caused by a bacterium called Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto. In the United States, Lyme disease is one of the most common infectious diseases. The major endemic areas of the disease are New England, Mid-Atlantic, East-North Central, South Atlantic, and West North-Central. Virginia is on the front-line of the disease’s diffusion from the northeast to the south. One of the research objectives for the infectious disease…