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: Stockdale, Jessica E., Kypraios, Theodore, O’Neill, Philip D.
Format: Article
Language:English
English
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39887/
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http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39887/1/smallpox%201-s2.0-S1755436516300500-main.pdf
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