doi: 10.7763/IJAPM.2012.V2.139
Model Choice for Stochastic Epidemics in Households
C. H. Wen
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- 1 university of Nottingham Ningbo, China
- 2 university of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.
Abstract
Although methods for parameter estimation for stochastic models of disease transmission are now well-established, the picture is much less clear for model assessment. We consider various approaches for model choice problems in the context of data on disease outbreaks collected at the level of individual households. The study provides practical values to identify feasible and numerical efficient model for given epidemic data.
Keywords
- Model choice
- stochastic epidemic models
- reversible jump MCMC
- Bayes factor
How to Cite
C. H. Wen and P. H. O’Neill, "Model Choice for Stochastic Epidemics in Households," International Journal of Applied Physics and Mathematics, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 376-378, 2012. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJAPM.2012.V2.139
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Copyright © 2012 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).