Modelling multisera data: The estimation of new joint and conditional epidemiological parameters

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 2651-2664

  Hens, Neil ^a   Aerts, M ^a   Shkedy, Z ^a   Theeten, H ^b   Van Damme, P ^b   Beutels, Ph ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Association; Force of infection; Infectious diseases; Multisera data; Vector generalized additive models

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PARVOVIRUS; PARVOVIRUS INFECTION; SEROLOGY; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VIRUS VIRULENCE;

BELGIUM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PARVOVIRUS B19, HUMAN; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 47249093788     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3089     Document Type: Article

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