Analysis of Between–Household Heterogeneity in Disease Transmission from Data on Outbreak Sizes |
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| Authors: | Ning Li,Guoqi Qian,& Richard Huggins |
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| Affiliation: | La Trobe University,;University of Melbourne &Murdoch Children's Research Institute |
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| Abstract: | The paper proposes a method of analysis for data on within–household disease transmission, when only outbreak sizes are available. The method assumes between–household heterogeneity of the transmission probabilities. A random effects model in a hierarchical setting is fitted using MCMC and data augmentation techniques. The procedure is illustrated on a measles dataset. |
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| Keywords: | data augmentation disease transmission heterogeneity MCMC outbreak size posterior distribution |
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