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Some Statistical Issues

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Book cover Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks

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All the models presented in the previous chapters are parametric. They belong to different types and serve different purposes.

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  1. Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control Branch, Public Health Agency of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada

    Ping Yan

  2. Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Faculty of Mathematics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    Ping Yan

  3. School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Gerardo Chowell

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Yan, P., Chowell, G. (2019). Some Statistical Issues. In: Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks. Texts in Applied Mathematics, vol 70. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21923-9_7

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