Estimation of the basic reproduction number for infectious diseases from age‐stratified serological survey data
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0035-9254,1467-9876
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00233