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Estimation of Vaccine Efficacy and Critical Vaccination Coverage in Partially Observed Outbreaks

Classical approaches to estimate vaccine efficacy are based on the assumption that a person's risk of infection does not depend on the infection status of others. This assumption is untenable for infectious disease data where such dependencies abound. We present a novel approach to estimating v...

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Autores principales: van Boven, Michiel, Ruijs, Wilhelmina L. M., Wallinga, Jacco, O'Neill, Philip D., Hahné, Susan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3642050/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23658512
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003061