Dynamics of measles epidemics: Estimating scaling of transmission rates using a Time series SIR model

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 169-184

  Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^a   Finkenstädt, Bärbel F ^b,c   Grenfell, Bryan T ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemic birth death process; Extinction recolonization; Noise and determinism; Nonlinear stochastic dynamics; Persistence thresholds; Population cycles; R0; Spatial coupling; Time series analysis; TSIR model

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MEASLES; MEDICAL GEOGRAPHY; MODEL; POPULATION CYCLE; TIME SERIES;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036590892     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2002)072[0169:DOMEES]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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