A two-component model for counts of infectious diseases

Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 422-437

  Held, Leonhard ^a   Hofmann, Mathias ^a   Höhle, Michael ^a   Schmid, Volker ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian changepoint model; Epidemic modeling; Reversible jump Markov chain Monte Carlo; Surveillance data

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PROBABILITY; SEASON; STATISTICS; VACCINATION;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GERMANY; HEPATITIS A; HEPATITIS B; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; SEASONS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VACCINATION;

EID: 33745464275     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxj016     Document Type: Article

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