This paper presents a simple method for estimation of population vaccination effectiveness, which is the fraction of disease cases prevented by a vaccination programme. The method is based on the susceptible-infectious-recovered (SIR) model for the spread of an epidemic in a heterogeneous population
Statistical estimation of the threshold of toxic effects
β Scribed by Maximov, V. N. ;Moshinskaya, L. R. ;Nosov, V. N.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 407 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0323-4320
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