A coupled hidden Markov model for disease interactions

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

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 609-627

  Sherlock, Chris ^a   Xifara, Tatiana ^a   Telfer, Sandra ^b   Begon, Mike ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling; Forward backward algorithm; Gibbs sampler; Hidden Markov models; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880314921     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12015     Document Type: Article

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