Estimating the Transmission Rate for a Highly Infectious Disease

DOI10.2307/3109779zbMATH Open1058.62575OpenAlexW2055387564WikidataQ74658583 ScholiaQ74658583MaRDI QIDQ4666010FDOQ4666010

Authors: Niels G. Becker, A. M. Hasofer 

Publication date: 11 April 2005

Published in: Biometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/3109779

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zbMATH Keywords

transmission ratereproduction numberdata reconstructionepidemic datasmoothed differentiation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Epidemiology (92D30)

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