Nonhomogeneous birth and death models for epidemic outbreak data

Biostatistics

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 453-467

  Van Den Broek, Jan ^a   Heesterbeek, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Avian influenza (H7N7); Burr distribution; Classical swine fever; Foot and mouth disease; Force of infection; Negative binomial; Nonhomogeneous birth process; Nonhomogeneous death process; Reproductive power

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CATTLE; CHICKEN; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; IRELAND; NETHERLANDS; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICS; SWINE; SWINE DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMAL DISEASES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHICKENS; CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; IRELAND; NETHERLANDS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SWINE;

AVES; SUIDAE;

EID: 34147155273     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxl023     Document Type: Article

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