Modeling zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis incidence in central Tunisia from 2009-2015: Forecasting models using climate variables as predictors

• Khouloud Talmoudi ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: talmoudi.khouloud@gmail.com

  Affiliations National Engineering School of Tunis, ENIT, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia, Research Unit on Modeling, Statistics and Economic Analysis (MASE, ESSAI), High School of Statistics and Information Analysis (ESSAI), University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia, Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia, Research Unit "Analysis of the Effects of Environmental and Climate Change on Health", Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahmen Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6128-4241

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• Hedia Bellali,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia, Research Unit "Analysis of the Effects of Environmental and Climate Change on Health", Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahmen Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Nissaf Ben-Alaya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia, National Observatory of New and Emergent Diseases, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Marc Saez,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group on Statistics, Econometrics and Health (GRECS), University of Girona, Girona, Spain

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• Dhafer Malouche,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Unit on Modeling, Statistics and Economic Analysis (MASE, ESSAI), High School of Statistics and Information Analysis (ESSAI), University of Carthage, Tunis, Tunisia

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• Mohamed Kouni Chahed

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahman Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia, Research Unit "Analysis of the Effects of Environmental and Climate Change on Health", Department of Epidemiology and Statistics, Abderrahmen Mami Hospital, Ariana, Tunisia, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine of Tunis, Tunis El Manar University, Tunis, Tunisia

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