RLadyBug-An R package for stochastic epidemic models

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 680-686

  Höhle, Michael ^a   Feldmann, Ulrike ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

MCMC; R; S4; SEIR model; SIR model; Stochastic modelling

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CARRIER COMMUNICATION; INFERENCE ENGINES; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MCMC; SIR MODEL; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMIC MODELS; SUSCEPTIBLE EXPOSED INFECTIOUS RECOVERED (SEIR) MODEL;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

EID: 35148863590     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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