Exact vs. approximate computation: Reconciling different estimates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis epidemiological parameters

Genetics

Volumn 196, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1227-1230

  Aandahl, R Zachariah ^a   Stadler, Tanja ^b   Sisson, Scott A ^a   Tanaka, Mark M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL MUTATION; BACTERIAL REPRODUCTION; GENETIC PARAMETERS; GENOTYPE; MUTATION RATE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGY; GENETICS; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84901299953     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.158808     Document Type: Note

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