Statistical studies of infectious disease incidence

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

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 287-307

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Britton, Tom ^b  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b La Trobe University ^*

Author keywords

Control of diseases; Data augmentation; Epidemic data; Epidemics in structured communities; Heterogeneous individuals; Immunity coverage; Incomplete data; Infectivity function; Martingale estimating function; Vaccination coverage; Vaccine efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033479072     PISSN: 13697412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9868.00177     Document Type: Article

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