Time series modelling of childhood diseases: A dynamical systems approach

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

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 187-205

  Finkenstädt, Bärbel F ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cyclicity and seasonality in measles populations; Dynamical models in epidemics; England and Wales measles data; Population dynamics of childhood diseases; Susceptible exposed infected recovered model

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034360414     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00187     Document Type: Article

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