Forecasting Ebola with a regression transmission model

Epidemics

Volumn 22, Issue , 2018, Pages 50-55

  Asher, Jason ^a  

^a Health and Human Services (HHS) Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority(BARDA)   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ebola; Forecasting; Mathematical modeling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; FORECASTING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIBERIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION; BAYES THEOREM; EPIDEMIC; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME; TRANSMISSION;

BAYES THEOREM; EPIDEMICS; FORECASTING; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LIBERIA; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TIME;

EID: 85016071260     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2017.02.009     Document Type: Article

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