Incorporating infectious duration‐dependent transmission into Bayesian epidemic models
Abstract: Compartmental models are commonly used to describe the spread of infectious diseases by estimating the probabilities of transitions between important disease states. A significant challenge in fitting Bayesian compartmental models lies in the need to estimate the duration of the infectious period, based on limited data providing only symptom onset date or another proxy for the start of infectiousness. Commonly, the exponential distribution is used to describe the infectious duration, an overly simplistic approach, which is not biologically plausible. More flexible distributions can be used, but parameter identifiability and computational cost can worsen for moderately sized or large epidemics. In this article, we present a novel approach, which considers a curve of transmissibility over a fixed infectious duration. The incorporation of infectious duration‐dependent (IDD) transmissibility, which decays to zero during the infectious period, is biologically reasonable for many viral infections and fixing the length of the infectious period eases computational complexity in model fitting. Through simulation, we evaluate different functional forms of IDD transmissibility curves and show that the proposed approach offers improved estimation of the time‐varying reproductive number. We illustrate the benefit of our approach through a new analysis of the 1995 outbreak of Ebola Virus Disease in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
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Englisch
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Incorporating infectious duration‐dependent transmission into Bayesian epidemic models ; day:26 ; month:10 ; year:2022 ; extent:19
Biometrical journal ; (26.10.2022) (gesamt 19)
- Urheber
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Ward, Caitlin
Brown, Grant D.
Oleson, Jacob J.
- DOI
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10.1002/bimj.202100401
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022102615515222520446
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 07:35 MESZ
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- Ward, Caitlin
- Brown, Grant D.
- Oleson, Jacob J.
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