Analysis of Infectious Disease Data: 33 (Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability) - Hardcover

Becker, N.G.

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ISBN 10: 0412309904 ISBN 13: 9780412309908

Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 1989

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Book by Becker NG

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Reseña del editor

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 epidemiologicallyimportant parameters.Niels G. Becker is Reader in Statistics at La Trobe University,Australia.

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The analysis of infectious disease data requires separate attention because standard methods of statistical inference cannot be applied directly. The reasons for this are, that infectious disease data are highly dependent and, that the infection process is only partially observable. In this book these difficulties are overcome by making appropriate model assumptions, by incorporating into the analysis the known mechanism of disease spread by means of a model and thus obtaining a more efficient analysis as well as directing attention at epidemiologically meaningful parameters.

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• Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0412309904
• ISBN 13: 9780412309908
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 236