Analysis of infectious disease data (6 cr)

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• There are three Excercises to choose from. The first one concerns the analysis of the Abakaliki data. The two other excercises deal with models for outbreaks of SARS (exercise II) and common flu (exercise III). Instructions can be found below.
• Exercise I
• Exercise II
• Execise III
• Lecture 9 (Exercise)
• sampleabakaliki
• drawinftimes
• initialisedata
• abakaliki
• aba1
• aba2
• fludata.dat
• abakalikidata (Table 6.1)

Course description: This course gives an introduction to statistical analysis of infectious diseasedata. Examples of typical problems for data analysis include estimation of the (mean) duration of infection or the mean number of secondary cases a case produces during his/her period of infection. The course covers some basic approaches, relying on both the frequentist and the Bayesian paradigms. The latter are particularly convenient for the analysis of infectious disease data, because the data are often incomplete (e.g. the times of infection are not directly observed).

Background material:

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• N.G. Becker: Analysis of Infectious Disease Data, Chapman and Hall, 1989
• R. Anderson and R. May, Infectious Diseases of the Humans, Oxford University Press
• M.E.Halloran: Concepts of Infectious Disease Epidemiology in Modern Epidemiology, eds. Rothman and Greenland, Lippincott and Raven, 1998
• Course notes (to be published during the course on this web page)

Contents: The preliminary contents is as follows:

• Lecture 1 (Powerpoint presentation)
• Lecture 2 Introduction to chain binomial models
• Lecture 3 More on chain binomial models
• Lecture 4a Bayesien data augmentation forchain binomial models
• Lecture 4b Random effect models
• Lecture 5 Continuous time models (estimation of infectiousness and latency)
• Lecture 6 Exercises
• Lecture 7a Modelling larger outbreaks
• Lecture 7b "Modelling larger outbreaks" continues (in Finnish; English translatation will appear later)
• Lecture 7b "Modelling larger outbreaks" continues (in English)
• Lecture 8 Estimation of vaccine efficacy

Class exercises

The course does not include separate exercise classes.

Exam

There is no exam in this course. Instead, the course includes a practical work.

Last updated 11.3.2008