Estimation in epidemics with incomplete observations

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B: Statistical Methodology

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 415-429

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Hasofer, Abraham M ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Birth death process; Epidemic model; Estimating functions; Incomplete data; Martingales; Transmission parameters

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000528415     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00076     Document Type: Article

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