Using the EM algorithm to estimate the disease parameters for smallpox in 17th century london

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3312-3317

  Duncan, Stephen ^a   Gyöngy, Miklòs ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE DYNAMICS; EM ALGORITHMS; KALMAN SMOOTHER; NON-LINEAR MODEL; PARAMETER VECTORS; SMALL POPULATION; TRANSMISSION PARAMETERS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77952890318     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CACSD-CCA-ISIC.2006.4777169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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