Spatio-temporal analysis of epidemic phenomena using the R package surveillance

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Meyer, Sebastian ^a   Held, Leonhard ^b   Höhle, Michael ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Branching process with immigration; Endemic epidemic modeling; Infectious disease epidemiology; Multivariate time series of counts; Self exciting point process; Spatio temporal surveillance data

Indexed keywords

EID: 85018436277     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v077.i11     Document Type: Article

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