Estimating the Transmission Rate for a Highly Infectious Disease

DOI10.2307/3109779MaRDI QIDQ4666010zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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