Empty confidence sets for epidemics, branching processes and Brownian motion

Biometrika

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 211-224

  Ball, Frank G ^a   Britton, Tom ^b   O'Neill, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Branching process; Brownian motion; Confidence set; Epidemic model; Likelihood based inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038209420     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/89.1.211     Document Type: Article

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