Extending backcalculation to analyse BSE data

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 177-190

  Donnelly, Christl A ^a   Ferguson, N M ^a   Ghani, A C ^a   Anderson, R M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADAPTATION; AGE; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; BIRTH; BOVINE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY; CATTLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCUBATION TIME; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MORBIDITY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING TEST; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENCEPHALOPATHY, BOVINE SPONGIFORM; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; GREAT BRITAIN; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE;

EID: 0038042163     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0962280203sm337ra     Document Type: Review

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