A penalized likelihood approach to estimate within-household contact networks from egocentric data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 629-648

  Potter, Gail E ^a,b   Hens, Niel ^c,d  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^c HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Contact networks; Epidemic models; Household contact; Penalized network; Social networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880275519     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12011     Document Type: Article

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