Yang, Yang; Longini, Ira M.; Halloran, M. Elizabeth - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C 55 (2006) 3, pp. 317-330
Prophylaxis of contacts of infectious cases such as household members and treatment of infectious cases are methods to prevent the spread of infectious diseases. We develop a method based on maximum likelihood to estimate the efficacy of such interventions and the transmission probabilities. We...