Estimating reproduction numbers for adults and children from case data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 8, Issue 62, 2011, Pages 1248-1259

  Glass, K ^a   Mercer, G N ^a   Nishiura, H ^b,c   McBryde, E S ^d   Becker, N G ^a  

^a The Australian National University   (Australia)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Influenza; Outbreak data; Reproduction number; Type structure

Indexed keywords

AGE GROUPS; BIAS ESTIMATE; INFLUENZA; MATRIX; OUTBREAK DATA; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; REPRODUCTION NUMBER; TYPE STRUCTURES;

ESTIMATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); JAPAN; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHILD; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; JAPAN;

EID: 79961110734     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2010.0679     Document Type: Article

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