Real-time forecast of multiphase outbreak

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 122-127

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a   Cheng, Yuan Sen ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EPIDEMIC; MODEL; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 31344450096     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1201.050396     Document Type: Article

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