A Bayesian framework for estimating vaccine efficacy per infectious contact

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1409-1431

  Yang, Yang ^a   Gilbert, Peter ^a   Longini Jr , Ira M ^a   Elizabeth Halloran, M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Bayesian; Copula; MCMC; Measurement error; Vaccine efficacy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953013391     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOAS193     Document Type: Article

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