A robust parameter estimation method for estimating disease burden of respiratory viruses.

BACKGROUND: Poisson model has been widely applied to estimate the disease burden of influenza, but there has been little success in providing reliable estimates for other respiratory viruses. METHODS: We compared the estimates of excess hospitalization rates derived from the Poisson models with diff...

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Main Authors: King Pan Chan, Chit Ming Wong, Susan S S Chiu, Kwok Hung Chan, Xi Ling Wang, Eunice L Y Chan, J S Malik Peiris, Lin Yang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3961249?pdf=render