Modeling transmission of multitype infectious agents: Application to carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 1450-1463

  Erästö, Panu ^a   Hoti, Fabian ^a,b   Auranen, Kari ^a  

^a NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Data augmentation; Multitype infection; Pneumococcal carriage; Transmission model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BANGLADESHI; BAYES THEOREM; FOLLOW UP; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MEASUREMENT; OBSERVATION; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTION; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BANGLADESH; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PNEUMOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 84862013286     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4487     Document Type: Article

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