Estimating the immunity coverage required to prevent epidemics in a community of households

DOI10.1093/BIOSTATISTICS/1.4.389zbMATH Open1089.62525OpenAlexW2097054006WikidataQ40566925 ScholiaQ40566925MaRDI QIDQ5701093FDOQ5701093

Authors: T. Britton, Niels G. Becker 

Publication date: 2 November 2005

Published in: Biostatistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/1.4.389

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zbMATH Keywords

Maximum likelihood estimationDisease transmissionBasic reproduction numberHerd immunityEpidemic dataHousehold communityHousehold outbreaksInfection parametersPreventing epidemicsStochastic epidemic modelVaccination coverage

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Epidemiology (92D30) Testing in survival analysis and censored data (62N03)

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