A latent variable model for estimating disease transmission rate from data on household outbreaks

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2005.06.011zbMath1445.62278OpenAlexW1979941844MaRDI QIDQ959415

Guoqi Qian, Richard M. Huggins, Ning Li

Publication date: 11 December 2008

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2005.06.011

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian statisticsdata augmentationoutbreak sizedisease transmission rateinfection chainTanner-Wong algorithm

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian inference (62F15) Medical epidemiology (92C60)

Uses Software

• BayesDA

Cites Work

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• The effect of random vaccine response on the vaccination coverage required to prevent epidemics
• The effect of household distribution on transmission and control of highly infectious diseases
• Threshold parameters for epidemics in different community settings
• The Calculation of Posterior Distributions by Data Augmentation
• Analysis of Between–Household Heterogeneity in Disease Transmission from Data on Outbreak Sizes

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