Modeling the Stochastic Dynamics of Influenza Epidemics with Vaccination Control, and the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Model Parameters

The multilevel hierarchical data EM-algorithm. Applications to discrete-time Markov chain epidemic models

“…Some classical examples of these models are the Greenwood [29] and Reed-Frost [6] models. Also see [28] , [31] , [52] , [53] , [58] .…”