Power-law models for infectious disease spread

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1612-1639

  Meyer, Sebastian ^a   Held, Leonhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Branching process with immigration; Infectious disease surveillance; Multivariate time series of counts; Power law; Spatial interaction function; Spatio temporal point process; Stochastic epidemic modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908274181     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/14-AOAS743     Document Type: Article

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