1st Edition

Analysis of Infectious Disease Data

By N.G. Becker Copyright 1989
234 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

236 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

234 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

The book gives an up-to-date account of various approaches availablefor the analysis of infectious disease data. Most of the methods havebeen developed only recently, and for those based on particularlymodern mathematics, details of the computation are carefullyillustrated. Interpretation is discussed at some length and the emphasisthroughout is on making statistical inferences about... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Chain binomial models 3. Chain models with random effects 4. Latent and infectious periods 5. Heterogeneity of disease spread through a community 6. Generalized Linear Models 7. Martingale methods 8. Methods of inference for large populations

Biography

Becker, N.G.