A note on estimation of the infection rate

DOI10.1016/0304-4149(92)90125-AzbMath0761.62160OpenAlexW1998796026MaRDI QIDQ1196475

Ray Watson, Paul S. F. Yip

Publication date: 14 December 1992

Published in: Stochastic Processes and their Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-4149(92)90125-a

zbMATH Keywords

approximationmaximum likelihood estimatorepidemic modelestimator of the infection ratemartingale estimatorsimple epidemic model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Inference from stochastic processes (62M99)

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