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The estimation of the parameters in epidemics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2016

Kevin Gough
Kevin Gough*
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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Extract

The General Stochastic Epidemic model is extended to allow for outside infection. The likelihood is derived for small households, and the difficulties for larger populations are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Information
Advances in Applied Probability , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , September 1975 , pp. 463
Copyright
Copyright © Applied Probability Trust 1975 

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References

Bailey, N. T. J. and Thomas, A. S. (1971) The estimation of parameters from population data on the general stochastic epidemic. Theoret. Pop. Biol. 2, 271–289.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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