Analyses of infectious disease data from household outbreaks by Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 517-542

  O'Neill, Philip D ^c   Balding, David J ^d   Becker, Niels G ^a   Eerola, Mervi ^d   Mollison, Denis ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Epidemic data; Gibbs sampler; Likelihood approximation; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Metropolis hastings algorithm; Missing data; Stochastic epidemic models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034354606     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00210     Document Type: Article

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