Modelling and Bayesian analysis of the Abakaliki smallpox data

The celebrated Abakaliki smallpox data have appeared numerous times in the epidemic modelling literature, but in almost all cases only a specific subset of the data is considered. The only previous analysis of the full data set relied on approximation methods to derive a likelihood and did not asses...

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Main Authors: Jessica E. Stockdale, Theodore Kypraios, Philip D. O’Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436516300500