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

DOI10.1093/BIOSTATISTICS/1.4.389MaRDI QIDQ5701093zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

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

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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