A note on parameter estimation for variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease epidemic models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 546-552

  Clarke, Paul S ^a   Ghani, Azra C ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Identifiability; Incomplete data; Survival analysis; vCJD

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; VARIANT CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE;

CREUTZFELDT-JAKOB SYNDROME; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 33846443669     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2567     Document Type: Article

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