Improving estimates of the basic reproductive ratio: Using both the mean and the dispersal of transition times

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 135-145

  Heffernan, J M ^a   Wahl, L M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Basic reproductive ratio; Epidemiology; Gamma distribution; Survival probability; Virus dynamics; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

DISPERSAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; PATHOGEN; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVORSHIP;

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY;

EID: 33746563616     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tpb.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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