Contact intervals, survival analysis of epidemic data, and estimation of R0

Biostatistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 548-566

  Kenah, Eben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Basic reproductive number (R0); Epidemic data; Generation intervals; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL; VIROLOGY;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959409839     PISSN: 14654644     EISSN: 14684357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxq068     Document Type: Article

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