A stochastic model for assessing Chlamydia trachomatis transmission risk by using longitudinal observational data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 975-989

  Tu, Wanzhu ^a   Ghosh, Pulak ^b   Katz, Barry P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT BANGALORE   (India)

Author keywords

Bacterial infection; Binary outcome; Longitudinal study; Markov chain Monte Carlo methods; Markov model; Observational data; Transmission probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053563513     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00691.x     Document Type: Article

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