amei: An R package for the adaptive management of epidemiological interventions

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1-32

  Merl, Daniel ^a   Johnson, Leah R ^b   Gramacy, Robert B ^c   Mangel, Marc ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Markov chain monte carlo; Optimal decisions; SIR model

Indexed keywords

EID: 77958107167     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v036.i06     Document Type: Article

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