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Analysis of Between–Household Heterogeneity in Disease Transmission from Data on Outbreak Sizes
Author(s) -
Li Ning,
Qian Guoqi,
Huggins Richard
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-842X
pISSN - 1369-1473
DOI - 10.1111/1467-842x.00242
Subject(s) - outbreak , statistics , transmission (telecommunications) , econometrics , markov chain monte carlo , mathematics , disease transmission , random effects model , computer science , monte carlo method , medicine , virology , telecommunications , meta analysis
The paper proposes a method of analysis for data on within–household disease transmission, when only outbreak sizes are available. The method assumes between–household heterogeneity of the transmission probabilities. A random effects model in a hierarchical setting is fitted using MCMC and data augmentation techniques. The procedure is illustrated on a measles dataset.