Estimation of the contact rate in a seasonal SEIR model: Application to chickenpox incidence in France

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1207-1216

  Deguen, Séverine ^a   Thomas, Guy ^a   Chau, Nguyen Phong ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FRANCE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCUBATION TIME; INFANT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; FRANCE; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE;

EID: 0034657863     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000515)19:9<1207::AID-SIM423>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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