Bayesian inference for epidemics with two levels of mixing

Nikolaos Demiris and Philip D. O'Neill

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, 2005, vol. 32, issue 2, 265-280

Abstract: Abstract. Methodology for Bayesian inference is considered for a stochastic epidemic model which permits mixing on both local and global scales. Interest focuses on estimation of the within‐ and between‐group transmission rates given data on the final outcome. The model is sufficiently complex that the likelihood of the data is numerically intractable. To overcome this difficulty, an appropriate latent variable is introduced, about which asymptotic information is known as the population size tends to infinity. This yields a method for approximate inference for the true model. The methods are applied to real data, tested with simulated data, and also applied to a simple epidemic model for which exact results are available for comparison.

Date: 2005
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