Components of the indirect effect in vaccine trials: Identification of contagion and infectiousness effects

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 751-761

  Vanderweele, Tyler J ^a   Tchetgen Tchetgen, Eric J ^a   Halloran, M Elizabeth ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE;

ARTICLE; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; CONTAGION EFFECT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTIOUSNESS EFFECT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VACCINATION;

CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EFFECT MODIFIER, EPIDEMIOLOGIC; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; VACCINES;

EID: 84864866357     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31825fb7a0     Document Type: Article

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