Estimation of vaccine efficacy and the vaccination threshold

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 4475-4488

  Yip, Paul S F ^a   Watson, Ray ^b   Chen, Qizhi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c Peking University   (China)

Author keywords

Counting process models; Epidemic model; Threshold value; Vaccine efficacy; Zero mean martingale

Indexed keywords

MUMPS VACCINE; VACCINE;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG RESEARCH; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE NEED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUMPS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VACCINATION;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MUMPS; MUMPS VACCINE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINATION; VACCINES;

EID: 35148863405     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2874     Document Type: Article

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