The analysis of hospital infection data using hidden Markov models.
Surveillance data for communicable nosocomial pathogens usually consist of short time series of low-numbered counts of infected patients. These often show overdispersion and autocorrelation. To date, almost all analyses of such data have ignored the communicable nature of the organisms and have used...
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Formato: | Journal article |
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2004
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