Bayesian nowcasting during the STEC O104: H4 outbreak in Germany, 2011

Biometrics

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 993-1002

  Höhle, Michael ^a,b   An Der Heiden, Matthias ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Infectious disease epidemiology; Real time surveillance; Reporting delay; Truncation

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CURVE FITTING; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; COUNT DATUM; DELAY DISTRIBUTIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE EPIDEMIOLOGY; NOWCASTING; REAL-TIME SURVEILLANCE; REPORTING DELAY; SHIGA TOXIN-PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; TRUNCATION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; PROCEDURES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIGA TOXIN PRODUCING ESCHERICHIA COLI; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FORECASTING; GERMANY; HEMOLYTIC-UREMIC SYNDROME; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHIGA-TOXIGENIC ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 84919876186     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12194     Document Type: Article

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