Statistical inference and model selection for the 1861 Hagelloch measles epidemic

Biostatistics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 249-261

  Neal, Peter J ^a   Roberts, Gareth O ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model choice; Reversible jump MCMC; Stochastic epidemics

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHILD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; GERMANY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; SCHOOL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ALGORITHMS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SCHOOLS; SPACE-TIME CLUSTERING;

EID: 6944223150     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/5.2.249     Document Type: Article

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