Estimating infectious disease parameters from data on social contacts and serological status

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 255-277

  Goeyvaerts, Nele ^a   Hens, Niel ^a   Ogunjimi, Benson ^b   Aerts, Marc ^a   Shkedy, Ziv ^a   Damme, Pierre Van ^b   Beutels, Philippe ^b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Basic reproduction number; Bootstrap procedure; Model averageing; Model selection; Social contact data; Transmission parameters; Who acquires infection from whom matrix

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949539472     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2009.00693.x     Document Type: Article

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