Methods to infer transmission risk factors in complex outbreak data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 9, Issue 68, 2012, Pages 456-469

  Cauchemez, Simon ^a   Ferguson, Neil M ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Expectation maximization; Infection disease; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Mathematical modelling; Statistics

Indexed keywords

BIOTECHNOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; STATISTICS;

COMPUTATIONAL TIME; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DISCRETIZATIONS; EXPECTATION MAXIMIZATION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; LARGE DATASETS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MATHEMATICAL MODELLING; MISSING DATA; NATURAL HISTORY; PARAMETRIC MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SIMULATED DATASETS; STATISTICAL MODELS; STRUCTURED POPULATION; SUFFICIENT STATISTICS; TREE RECONSTRUCTION;

BIOPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 84856897179     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2011.0379     Document Type: Article

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