Nested sampling for Bayesian model comparison in the context of Salmonella disease dynamics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Dybowski, Richard ^a   McKinley, Trevelyan J ^a   Mastroeni, Pietro ^a   Restif, Olivier ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; LIVER CELL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; TYPHOID FEVER; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ANIMAL SALMONELLOSIS; BACTERIAL COUNT; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; STATISTICS; VIRULENCE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROBABILITY; SALMONELLA ENTERICA; SALMONELLA INFECTIONS, ANIMAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VIRULENCE;

EID: 84893374049     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082317     Document Type: Article

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