Estimating incubation period distributions with coarse data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 2769-2784

  Reich, Nicholas G ^a   Lessler, Justin ^a   Cummings, Derek A T ^a   Brookmeyer, Ron ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coarse data; Doubly interval censored data; Incubation period; Influenza

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COARSE DATA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA REDUCTION TECHNIQUE; DOUBLY INTERVAL CENSORED METHOD; HUMAN; INCUBATION TIME; INFLUENZA VIRUS A; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; NONHUMAN; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL PNEUMOVIRUS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE INCUBATION PERIOD; INFLUENZA A VIRUS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUSES;

EID: 70449433158     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3659     Document Type: Article

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