Fitting outbreak models to data from many small norovirus outbreaks

Infectious disease often occurs in small, independent outbreaks in populations with varying characteristics. Each outbreak by itself may provide too little information for accurate estimation of epidemic model parameters. Here we show that using standard stochastic epidemic models for each outbreak...

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Main Authors: Eamon B. O’Dea, Kim M. Pepin, Ben A. Lopman, Claus O. Wilke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-03-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436513000546