Estimating absolute and relative case fatality ratios from infectious disease surveillance data

DOI10.1111/J.1541-0420.2011.01709.XMaRDI QIDQ117635zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nicholas G. Reich, Justin Lessler, Derek A. T. Cummings, Ron Brookmeyer

Publication date 25 January 2012

Published in Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540071

zbMATH Keywords

surveillanceEM algorithmgeneralized linear modelscase fatality ratioinfectious diseaseinfluenza

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Medical applications (general) (92C50) Generalized linear models (logistic models) (62J12)

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