Stochastic multitype epidemics in a community of households: Estimation of threshold parameter R and secure vaccination coverage

DOI10.1093/biomet/91.2.345zbMath1079.62101OpenAlexW2118524012MaRDI QIDQ3367602

Tom Britton, Owen D. Lyne, Frank G. Ball

Publication date: 24 January 2006

Published in: Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/91.2.345

zbMATH Keywords

VaccinationStochastic epidemicThreshold parameterHousehold epidemicMultitype epidemicOutbreak data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Applications of mathematical programming (90C90) Linear programming (90C05) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02)

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