Correction: A likelihood approach to estimate the number of co-infections (PLoS ONE (2014) 9:7 (e97899) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097899);A likelihood approach to estimate the number of co-infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages

  Schneider, Kristan A ^a   Escalante, Ananias A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES MITTWEIDA   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; MALARIA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MIXED INFECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ALGORITHM; GENETICS; PATHOLOGY; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALGORITHMS; COINFECTION; GENETIC LOCI; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MALARIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84903776463     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0192877     Document Type: Erratum

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