Inference of R0 and Transmission Heterogeneity from the Size Distribution of Stuttering Chains

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Blumberg, Seth ^a,b,c   Lloyd Smith, James O ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; DISEASES; DISPERSIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

CHAIN SIZE; DISEASE PROCESS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISPERSION PARAMETERS; EMERGING DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MECHANISTICS; SIZE-DISTRIBUTION; SPATIO-TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TRANSMISSION CHAINS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

ARTICLE; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC CONGO; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONKEYPOX; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STUTTERING TRANSMISSION CHAIN;

EID: 84878503913     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002993     Document Type: Article

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