Epidemics in Heterogeneous Communities: Estimation of R0 and Secure Vaccination Coverage

DOI10.1111/1467-9868.00307zbMath0986.62089OpenAlexW2039076742MaRDI QIDQ2773202

Tom Britton

Publication date: 10 June 2002

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9868.00307

zbMATH Keywords

consistencybasic reproduction numbervaccination coveragevaccine efficacymultitype epidemicsfinal size data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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