A Space-Time Conditional Intensity Model for Invasive Meningococcal Disease Occurrence

Biometrics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 607-616

  Meyer, Sebastian ^a,b   Elias, Johannes ^c   Höhle, Michael ^b,d  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional intensity function; Infectious disease surveillance data; Spatiotemporal point process; Stochastic epidemic modeling

Indexed keywords

STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

CONDITIONAL INTENSITY FUNCTION; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE SURVEILLANCE DATA; INTENSITY MODELS; POINT PROCESS; SPACETIME; SPATIOTEMPORAL POINT PROCESS; STOCHASTIC EPIDEMIC MODELS; SURVEILLANCE DATA;

BIOMETRICS;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BIOMETRY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862897679     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01684.x     Document Type: Article

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