THE USE OF CHAIN-BINOMIALS WITH A VARIABLE CHANCE OF INFECTION FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INTRA-HOUSEHOLD EPIDEMICS

Wilson et al. were able to show that in none of the groups of available data did the Greenwood model give an adequate description of the numbers of cases occurring in the separate generations through which the epidemic passed, though it did sometimes give a satisfactory fit to the distribution of the total number of cases in a household.

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Journal Article THE USE OF CHAIN-BINOMIALS WITH A VARIABLE CHANCE OF INFECTION FOR THE ANALYSIS OF INTRA-HOUSEHOLD EPIDEMICS Get access NORMAN T. J. BAILEY NORMAN T. J. BAILEY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Biometrika, Volume 40, Issue 3-4, December 1953, Pages 279–286, https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/40.3-4.279 Published: 01 December 1953