Back-calculating the age-specific incidence of recurrent subclinical Haemophilus influenzae type b infection

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 281-296

  Auranen, Kari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BAYES THEOREM; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE TYPE B; HUMAN; IMMUNIZATION; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECURRENT INFECTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FINLAND; HAEMOPHILUS INFECTIONS; HAEMOPHILUS INFLUENZAE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RECURRENCE;

EID: 0034651668     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000215)19:3<281::AID-SIM344>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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