Estimating the transmission rate for a highly infectious disease

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 730-738

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

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Data reconstruction; Epidemic data; Reproduction number; Smoothed differentiation; Transmission rate

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY;

DATA RECONSTRUCTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS PERIOD; REMOVAL PROCESS; REPRODUCTION NUMBERS; SMOOTHED DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS; TRANSMISSION RATES;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION; INFECTION RATE; MEASLES; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 0031745175     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3109779     Document Type: Article

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