Estimating Absolute and Relative Case Fatality Ratios from Infectious Disease Surveillance Data

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 598-606

  Reich, Nicholas G ^a,b   Lessler, Justin ^b   Cummings, Derek A T ^b   Brookmeyer, Ron ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Case fatality ratio; EM algorithm; Generalized linear models; Infectious disease; Influenza; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

POPULATION STATISTICS;

CASE FATALITY RATIO; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EM ALGORITHMS; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; OPTIMAL ALLOCATION; SURVEILLANCE; SURVEILLANCE DATA;

DISEASES;

DATA SET; DISEASE PREVALENCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION OUTBREAK; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SUBPOPULATION; VULNERABILITY;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862883080     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01709.x     Document Type: Article

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