Open AccessTransmission Modeling with Regression Adjustment for Analyzing Household-based Studies of Infectious Disease
Author(s) -
Forrest W. Crawford,
Florian M. Marx,
Jon Zelner,
Ted Cohen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
epidemiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.901
H-Index - 173
eISSN - 1531-5487
pISSN - 1044-3983
DOI - 10.1097/ede.0000000000001143
Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , tuberculosis , logistic regression , poisson regression , transmission (telecommunications) , cohort , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , demography , psychological intervention , epidemiology , cohort study , environmental health , population , pathology , psychiatry , sociology , electrical engineering , engineering
Household contacts of people infected with a transmissible disease may be at risk due to this proximate exposure, or from other unobserved sources. Understanding variation in infection risk is essential for targeting interventions.