Optimal design of experimental epidemics

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 143, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 563-572

  Pagendam, D E ^a   Pollett, P K ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemic; Fisher information; Markov chain; Optimal design; SI; SI(k)R; SIR; SIS; Transmission experiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869103821     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2012.09.011     Document Type: Article

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