The book gives an up-to-date account of various approaches availablefor the analysis of
infectious disease data. Most of the methods havebeen developed only recently, and for …

Objective: To determine the prevalence and predictors of left ventricular (LV) diastolic
dysfunction in older adults. Design, setting and participants: A cross-sectional survey of …

Background: Foodborne illness is a significant public health issue in most countries,
including Australia. We examined the association between temperature and salmonellosis …

Background The grading of radiological severity in clinical trials in tuberculosis (TB) remains
unstandardised. The aim of this study was to generate and validate a numerical score for …

After explaining why martingale methods play an important role in statistical inference for
parameters of epidemic models, we give a tutorial introduction to these methods in the more …

This study compares the seasonality of rotavirus diarrhoeal hospital admissions and its
relationship to climatic factors across three Australian cities. Weekly admission of rotavirus …

The method of back‐projection has been used to estimate the unobserved past incidence of
infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and to obtain projections of future …

Methods for the analysis of data on the incidence of an infectious disease are reviewed, with
an emphasis on important objectives that such analyses should address and identifying …

Two epidemic threshold parameters are derived for the spread of a highly infectious disease
in a community of households, where a household is any group whose members have …

The analysis of infectious disease data presents challenges arising from the dependence in
the data and the fact that only part of the transmission process is observable. These …