Using data on social contacts to estimate age-specific transmission parameters for respiratory-spread infectious agents

J Wallinga, P Teunis… - American journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The estimation of transmission parameters has been problematic for diseases that rely
predominantly on transmission of pathogens from person to person through small infectious …

Evolution and use of dynamic transmission models for measles and rubella risk and policy analysis

KM Thompson - Risk Analysis, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The devastation caused by periodic measles outbreaks motivated efforts over more than a
century to mathematically model measles disease and transmission. Following the …

Assessing optimal target populations for influenza vaccination programmes: an evidence synthesis and modelling study

M Baguelin, S Flasche, A Camacho, N Demiris… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background Influenza vaccine policies that maximise health benefit through efficient use of
limited resources are needed. Generally, influenza vaccination programmes have targeted …

[HTML][HTML] Approximate Bayesian Computation for infectious disease modelling

A Minter, R Retkute - Epidemics, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) techniques are a suite of model fitting
methods which can be implemented without a using likelihood function. In order to use ABC …

Mixing patterns between age groups in social networks

SY Del Valle, JM Hyman, HW Hethcote, SG Eubank - Social Networks, 2007 - Elsevier
We present a method for estimating transmission matrices that describe the mixing and the
probability of infection between age groups. Transmission matrices can be used to estimate …

[图书][B] Modeling infectious disease parameters based on serological and social contact data: a modern statistical perspective

N Hens, Z Shkedy, M Aerts, C Faes, P Van Damme… - 2012 - books.google.com
Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of
individuals between mutually exclusive infection states. One of the key parameters …

[HTML][HTML] An age-cohort simulation model for generating COVID-19 scenarios: A study from Ireland's pandemic response

J Duggan, J Andrade, TB Murphy, JP Gleeson… - European Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic presented an immediate need for the Irish Government to
establish modelling capacity in order to inform public health decision making. A broad …

Social contacts of school children and the transmission of respiratory-spread pathogens

RT Mikolajczyk, MK Akmatov, S Rastin… - Epidemiology & …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Empirical data about contact frequencies of children is needed for estimating parameters in
mathematical modelling studies that investigate the effect of targeting influenza intervention …

Seventy-five years of estimating the force of infection from current status data

N Hens, M Aerts, C Faes, Z Shkedy… - Epidemiology & …, 2010 - cambridge.org
The force of infection, describing the rate at which a susceptible person acquires an
infection, is a key parameter in models estimating the infectious disease burden, and the …

[HTML][HTML] Characterizing the impact of spatial clustering of susceptibility for measles elimination

SA Truelove, M Graham, WJ Moss, CJE Metcalf… - Vaccine, 2019 - Elsevier
Measles elimination efforts are primarily focused on achieving and maintaining national
vaccination coverage goals, based on estimates of the critical vaccination threshold (V c) …