On estimating the infection rate of the simple stochastic epidemic

Richard J. Kryscio

doi:10.1093/biomet/59.1.213

On estimating the infection rate of the simple stochastic epidemic

Richard J. Kryscio

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SUMMARY: Hill & Severo (1969) suggest an approximation to the maximum likelihood estimate of the infection rate of the simple stochastic epidemic model. In this note, a refinement to this approximation is presented.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	213-214
Number of pages	2
Journal	Biometrika
Volume	59
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/59.1.213
State	Published - Apr 1972

Keywords

Approximate maximum likelihood estimates
Infection rate
Simple stochastic epidemic

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Statistics and Probability
General Mathematics
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty
Applied Mathematics

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