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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The beta-binomial distribution has been frequently applied to model intraclass correlation among dichotomous responses in cluster sampling. To ...
In a recent study published in the United States (U.S.) Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, researchers determined the mean incubation period and the ...
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Study: Genomic epidemiology offers high resolution estimates of serial intervals for COVID-19. Image Credit: ETAJOE/Shutterstock.com In infectious disease control, serial intervals are critical ...
In this program, the quasi-Newton technique is used to maximize the likelihood function. You can replace the quasi-Newton routine by other optimization routines, such as the NLPNRR subroutine, which ...
The number needed to treat, that is, the average number of patients a clinician needs to treat with a particular therapy to prevent one bad outcome,1 is a translation into clinical terms of the ...
The topic of variable importance in linear regression is reviewed, and a measure first justified theoretically by Pratt (1987) is examined in detail. Asymptotic variance estimates are used to ...