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

DOI10.1093/biostatistics/1.4.389zbMath1089.62525OpenAlexW2097054006WikidataQ40566925 ScholiaQ40566925MaRDI QIDQ5701093

Tom 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

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

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