Comparison and assessment of epidemic models

DOI10.1214/17-STS615zbMath1407.62400MaRDI QIDQ667674

Gavin J. Gibson, David Thong, George Streftaris

Publication date: 1 March 2019

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ss/1517562022

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationBayesian methodsmodel criticismmodel comparisonepidemic modelsclassical methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Point estimation (62F10) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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