Hierarchical Bayesian model for prevalence inferences and determination of a country's status for an animal pathogen

Preventive Veterinary Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 155-171

  Suess, E A ^a   Gardner, I A ^b   Johnson, W O ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive rejection sampling; Bayesian modeling; Disease freedom; Gibbs sampler; Herd level testing; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Newcastle disease; Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD DISEASE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECONOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; PROBABILITY; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; SWITZERLAND; VIROLOGY; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEWCASTLE DISEASE; PORCINE REPRODUCTIVE AND RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 0037109146     PISSN: 01675877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-5877(02)00092-2     Document Type: Article

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