Fitting mechanistic epidemic models to data: A comparison of simple Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches

Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2018, Pages 1956-1967

  Li, Michael ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan ^a   Bolker, Benjamin M ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

discrete time susceptible infectious removed model; dispersion; Hamiltonian Monte Carlo; Markov chain Monte Carlo; moment matching

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; EPIDEMIC; INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MARKOV CHAIN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; SIMULATION; ALGORITHM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; HUMAN;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMICS; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 85047953488     PISSN: 09622802     EISSN: 14770334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0962280217747054     Document Type: Article

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