Modelling and prediction of weekly incidence of influenza A specimens in England and Wales

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 136, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1658-1666

  Šaltyté Benth, Jurate ^a,b,d   Hofoss, D ^a,c  

^a AKERSHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^d NONE   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; SEASONAL VARIATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ENGLAND; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS; WALES;

EID: 56349149996     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268808000307     Document Type: Article

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