Model-based estimation of vaccine effects from community vaccine trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 481-495

  Longini Jr , Ira M ^a   Halloran, M Elizabeth ^a   Nizam, Azhar ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Community trials; Group randomization; Infectious disease; Maximum likelihood; Mixed effects models; Vaccine efficacy

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO; VACCINE;

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EMPIRICISM; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VACCINATION; VARIANCE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 0037186438     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.994     Document Type: Article

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