Modelling infectious disease transmission with complex exposure pattern and sparse outcome data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 19, 2004, Pages 3013-3032

  Reilly, Marie ^a   Salim, Agus ^b   Lawlor, Emer ^c,d   Smith, Owen ^c   Temperley, Ian ^c   Pawitan, Yudi ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b The Australian National University   (Australia)

^c ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^d IRISH BLOOD TRANSFUSION SERVICE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Contaminated blood; Haemophilia HIV; Infection risk; Mixed models; Random effects; Splines

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EXPOSURE; HEMOPHILIA; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; IRELAND; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HEMOPHILIA A; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IRELAND; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 4444269453     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1881     Document Type: Article

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