Bayesian inference for a stochastic epidemic model with uncertain numbers of susceptibles of several types

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 491-502

  Hayakawa, Yu ^a   O'Neill, Philip D ^b   Upton, Darren ^c   Yip, Paul S F ^d  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Epidemic; Gibbs sampler; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Metropolis Hastings algorithm

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344153844     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00300     Document Type: Article

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