Introduction and snapshot review: Relating infectious disease transmission models to data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 20, 2010, Pages 2069-2077

  O'Neill, Philip D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Data augmentation; Epidemic models; Infectious diseases; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Stochastic epidemic models

Indexed keywords

DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; INFECTION; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; REVIEW; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BIOSTATISTICS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77956310393     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3968     Document Type: Review

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