Predicting the epidemic sizes of influenza A/H1N1, A/H3N2, and B: a statistical method.

The epidemic sizes of influenza A/H3N2, A/H1N1, and B infections vary from year to year in the United States. We use publicly available US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) influenza surveillance data between 1997 and 2009 to study the temporal dynamics of influenza over this period.Regional outpati...

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Main Authors: Edward Goldstein, Sarah Cobey, Saki Takahashi, Joel C Miller, Marc Lipsitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-07-01
Series:PLoS Medicine
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3130020?pdf=render