Estimating the within-household infection rate in emerging SIR epidemics among a community of households

DOI10.1007/s00285-015-0872-5zbMath1356.92078OpenAlexW2046132247WikidataQ41144166 ScholiaQ41144166MaRDI QIDQ893833

Laurence Shaw, Frank G. Ball

Publication date: 20 November 2015

Published in: Journal of Mathematical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00285-015-0872-5

zbMATH Keywords

branching processSIR epidemic modelunbiased estimatoremerging epidemicwithin-household infection rate

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Epidemiology (92D30) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Applications of branching processes (60J85)

Related Items (2)

Inference for Emerging Epidemics Among a Community of Households ⋮ The impact of household structure on disease-induced herd immunity

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