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Analysis and estimative of schistosomiasis prevalence for the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, using multiple regression with social and environmental spatial data Ricardo JPS Guimaräes; Corina C Freitas; Luciano V Dutra; Ana CM Moura; Ronaldo S Amaral; Sandra C Drummond; Márcio Guerra; Ronaldo GC Scholte; Charles R Freitas & Omar S Carvalho Abstract The aim of this work is to establish a relationship between schistosomiasis prevalence and social-environmental variables, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, through multiple linear regression. The final regression model was established, after a variables selection phase, with a set of spatial variables which contains the summer minimum temperature, human development index, and vegetation type variables. Based on this model, a schistosomiasis risk map was built for Minas Gerais Keywords schistosomiasis - risk map - geographical information system - multiple linear regression

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