A statistical investigation of the risk factors for tuberculosis

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A statistical investigation of the risk factors for tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis (TB) is called a disease of poverty and is the main cause of death from infectious diseases among adults. In 1993 the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared TB to be a global emergency; however there were still approximately 1.4 million deaths due to TB in 2011. This thesis contains a detailed study of the existing literature regarding the global risk factors of TB. The risk factors identified from the literature review search which were also available from the NFHS-3 survey we...

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Research paper

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Thesis

Thesis level

Masters

Date created

2013

Creator

van Woerden, Irene

URL

http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8662

Related subjects

TB / Tuberculosis / NFHS-3 / classification trees / nearest neighbours / logistic regression / Directed Acyclic Graphs

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