Time varying frailty models and the estimation of heterogeneities in transmission of infectious diseases

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

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 141-158

  Unkel, Steffen ^a   Farrington, C Paddy ^b   Whitaker, Heather J ^b   Pebody, Richard ^c  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Current status data; Frailty; Heterogeneity; Infectious diseases; Serological survey; Time varying frailty models; Transmission routes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890876219     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/rssc.12033     Document Type: Article

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