A space-time conditional intensity model for invasive meningococcal disease occurrence
| Autor: | Meyer, Sebastian, Elias, Johannes, Höhle, Michael |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Biometrics 68, 607--616 |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2011.01684.x |
| Popis: | A novel point process model continuous in space-time is proposed for quantifying the transmission dynamics of the two most common meningococcal antigenic sequence types observed in Germany 2002-2008. Modelling is based on the conditional intensity function (CIF) which is described by a superposition of additive and multiplicative components. As an epidemiological interesting finding, spread behaviour was shown to depend on type in addition to age: basic reproduction numbers were 0.25 (95% CI 0.19-0.34) and 0.11 (95% CI 0.07-0.17) for types B:P1.7-2,4:F1-5 and C:P1.5,2:F3-3, respectively. Altogether, the proposed methodology represents a comprehensive and universal regression framework for the modelling, simulation and inference of self-exciting spatio-temporal point processes based on the CIF. Usability of the modelling in biometric practice is promoted by an implementation in the R package surveillance. Comment: Accepted Author Manuscript |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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