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title: "Nighttime Lights and Malaria in the Peruvian Amazon"
author: "Gabriel Carrasco-Escobar"
date: "2020-05-27T06:58:32Z"
tags: [Epidemiology]
link: "https://bookdown.org/gabc91/NL_MAL/"
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Code library of data exploration and analysis [...] Nighttime Lights (NL) datasets were used into urban planning, econometric downscaling, disaster response, development, and socio-environmental studies since the very beginning of their public release (Pastor-Escuredo, Savy, & Luengo-Oroz, 2015). (Henderson, Storeygard, & Weil, 2012). (Otchia & Asongu, 2019) In the malaria literature, most of studies used data extracted from NL datasets as a covariate to understand malaria epidemiology patterns (Lechthaler et al., 2019), most commonly used as part of an urbanicity/landscape indexes (Keiser et  ...
