Inferring population-level contact heterogeneity from common epidemic data

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 10, Issue 78, 2013, Pages

  Stack, J Conrad ^a   Bansal, Shweta ^a,b   Kumar, V S Anil ^c   Grenfell, Bryan ^b,d  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA BIOINFORMATICS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact heterogeneity; Epidemic data; Infectious disease; Network model; Statistical inference

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CONTACT NETWORKS; CONTACT STRUCTURE; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE DYNAMICS; EPIDEMIC DATA; GENERAL CLASS; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INTERVENTION STRATEGY; NETWORK MODELS; NETWORK STRUCTURES; REPRODUCTIVE NUMBER; SIMPLE APPROACH; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; STUDY DESIGN; TRANSMISSION PROBABILITIES;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; EPIDEMIC; HOST; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION RESEARCH; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; MALE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84871300935     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2012.0578     Document Type: Article

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