TY - JOUR T1 - The effect of weather on some infectious diseases JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 239 LP - 244 VL - 25 IS - 153 AU - P. R. Grob AU - M. Crowder Y1 - 1975/04/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/25/153/239.abstract N2 - For several years the Royal College of General Practitioners has been collecting data supplied by local doctors throughout Britain on some infectious diseases seen in their practices. We describe a method of computerisation of this information and statistical analyses. We are investigating the influence of external factors such as climate on the infectiousness of some diseases. A model is fitted involving a non homogeneous two-state Markov chain whose transition probabilities are governed by the explanatory data. ER -