Semiparametric Relative-Risk Regression for Infectious Disease Transmission Data

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 509, 2015, Pages 313-325

  Kenah, Eben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain binomial model; EM algorithm; Epidemiology; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928233577     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.896807     Document Type: Article

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