Linking data and models: the importance of statistical analyses to inform models for the transmission dynamics of infections.

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Published in Epidemiology on July 01, 2012

Authors

Virginia E Pitzer1, Nicole E Basta

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544,USA. vepitzer@princeton.edu

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