Parameterizing state-space models for infectious disease dynamics by generalized profiling: Measles in Ontario

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 60, 2011, Pages 961-974

  Hooker, Giles ^a   Ellner, Stephen P ^b   De Vargas Roditi, Laura ^c   Earn, David J D ^d  

^a Plant Science Building   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Differential equation model; Generalized profiling; Measles; State space model

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; BASIC REPRODUCTIVE RATIO; CONTROL MEASURES; DETERMINISTIC MODELS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHODS; EXTENSIVE SIMULATIONS; GENERALIZED PROFILING; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE MODELS; MEASLES; MONTE CARLO INFERENCE; NUMERICAL CHALLENGES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; ONTARIO; PARAMETERIZING; PROBABILISTIC DYNAMICS; PROBABILISTIC MODELS; SEASONALITY; STATE-SPACE MODELS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STATISTICAL VALIDITY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); DISEASE CONTROL; ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

ARTICLE; CANADA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; GENERALIZED PROFILING; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASLES; SEASONAL VARIATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; VALIDITY;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MEASLES; MEASLES VIRUS; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; ONTARIO; SEASONS;

EID: 79958052495     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0412     Document Type: Article

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