Urn models and vaccine efficacy estimation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 827-835

  Hernández Suárez, Carlos M ^a   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE COLIMA   (Mexico)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ASSAY; DRUG EFFICACY; INFECTION; MODEL; POPULATION; REVIEW; SAMPLING; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VACCINE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; VACCINATION;

EID: 0343238292     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000330)19:6<827::AID-SIM382>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Review

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