Semiparametric estimation of the duration of immunity from infectious disease time series: Influenza as a case-study

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 659-672

  Xia, Yingcun ^a   Gog, Julia R ^b   Grenfell, Bryan T ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamical models in epidemics; Generalized partially linear single index model; Immunity; Influenza; Kernel smoother; Susceptible infected recovered susceptible model

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444372056     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.05383.x     Document Type: Article

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