Estimating the within-household infection rate in emerging SIR epidemics among a community of households

This paper is concerned with estimation of the within household infection rate λL for a susceptible → infective → recovered epidemic among a population of households, from observation of the early, exponentially growing phase of an epidemic. Specifically, it is assumed that an estimate of the expone...

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Main Authors: Ball, Frank, Shaw, Laurence
Format: Article
Published: Springer Verlag 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34214/