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. 2017 Mar 21;114(12):E2270-E2271.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1700369114. Epub 2017 Mar 15.

Does influenza drive absolute humidity?

Edward B Baskerville  1 , Sarah Cobey  2
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Does influenza drive absolute humidity?

Edward B Baskerville et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Fig. 1.
CCM results testing whether influenza drives environmental variables in different countries. Circles show the cross-map correlation; significant interactions are large and red. Vertical bars show the location of the 95% quantile of the null distribution constructed from surrogate time series. Surrogates were constructed using splines for both influenza and environmental variables, and analysis was restricted to periods when influenza was present. Influenza incidence was not log-transformed.
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  • Global environmental drivers of influenza.
    Deyle ER, Maher MC, Hernandez RD, Basu S, Sugihara G. Deyle ER, et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016 Nov 15;113(46):13081-13086. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1607747113. Epub 2016 Oct 31. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2016. PMID: 27799563 Free PMC article.

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