Design issues for studies of infectious diseases

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 41-66

  Becker, Niels G ^a   Britton, Tom ^b  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Assessing a vaccine; Basic reproduction number; Disease transmission rates; Efficient designs; Epidemic models; Household outbreaks; Incomplete data; Partially observed process; Planned veterinary experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041405990     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00323-2     Document Type: Article

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