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Gómez-Rubio, V., Ferrándiz-Ferragud, J., López-Quílez, A. (2009). Epidemiological Information Systems. In: Pilz, J. (eds) Interfacing Geostatistics and GIS. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33236-7_18
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