Loglinear models using capture-recapture methods to estimate the size of a measles epidemic

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 293-296

  McGilchrist, C A ^a   McDonnell, L F ^a,b   Jorm, L R ^b   Patel, M S ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Western Sector Public Health Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Epidemic size; Loglinear models; Measles

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFANT; MEASLES; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0030000496     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0895-4356(95)00550-1     Document Type: Article

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