Statistical inference to advance network models in epidemiology

Epidemics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 38-45

  Welch, David ^a   Bansal, Shweta ^a   Hunter, David R ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact networks; Estimation; Statistical inference; Transmission networks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION; NETWORK LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 79951562907     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2011.01.002     Document Type: Article

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