A frailty model for intervention effectiveness against disease transmission when implemented with unobservable heterogeneity

For an intervention against the spread of communicable diseases, the idealized situation is when individuals fully comply with the intervention and the exposure to the infectious agent is comparable across all individuals. Some level of non-compliance is likely where the intervention is widely imple...

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Main Author: Ping Yan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIMS Press 2018-01-01
Series:Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering
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Online Access:https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/mbe.2018012