Contact Surface Models for Infectious Diseases
- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Vol. 100 (470) , 370-379
- https://doi.org/10.1198/016214504000001754
Abstract
Controlling of infectious diseases requires information about the rates at which individuals make contact. We propose a novel approach to modeling contact rates via a continuous contact surface. Th...Keywords
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