On the estimation of the reproduction number based on misreported epidemic data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1176-1192

  Azmon, Amin ^a   Faes, Christel ^a   Hens, Niel ^a,b  

^a HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Composite link model; Delay in reporting; Epidemic renewal equation; MCMC; Underreporting

Indexed keywords

2009 H1N1 INFLUENZA; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; INCIDENCE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEXICO; PARAMETRIC TEST; REPRODUCTION NUMBER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; UNITED STATES;

COMPOSITE LINK MODEL; DELAY IN REPORTING; EPIDEMIC RENEWAL EQUATION; MCMC; UNDERREPORTING;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MARKOV CHAINS; MEXICO; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84896731314     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.6015     Document Type: Article

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