Discrete time modelling of disease incidence time series by using Markov chain Monte Carlo methods

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

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 575-594

  Morton, Alexander ^a   Finkenstädt, Bärbel F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease incidence time series; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Stochastic modelling of infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

EID: 18444386519     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2005.05366.x     Document Type: Article

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