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Introduction to Seasonality

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Analysing Seasonal Health Data

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In this chapter we define what we mean by a season and show some methods for investigating and modelling a seasonal pattern.

Three excellent, but more technical, books on seasonality are by Mardia [59], Fisher [35], and Ghysels and Osborn [41]. We also recommend Chap. 8 of West and Harrison [87]. An excellent book on the history and construction of the Christian calendar is Duncan [28].

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    Dr. Adrian G. Barnett

  2. University of Queensland School of Population Health, Herston Road, Herston, QLD, 4006, Australia

    Prof. Annette J. Dobson

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Barnett, A.G., Dobson, A.J. (2010). Introduction to Seasonality. In: Analysing Seasonal Health Data. Statistics for Biology and Health. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10748-1_2

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