Monitoring the Paraguayan epidemiological dengue surveillance system (2009-2011) using Benford’s law
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عنوان ژورنال: Biomédica
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0120-4157,0120-4157
DOI: 10.7705/biomedica.v36i4.2731