The Infectiousness of a Disease in a Community of Households
家庭组成社区中的疾病传染性
Procedures for making inference about both the mean potential that an infective has for infecting a given susceptible from the same household, and the mean potential he has for infecting a given susceptible from another household are proposed. These estimation procedures provide a check for the assumption that the disease spreads homogeneously through the community, that is the assumption of homogeneous mixing. They also provide a means of checking whether or not the spread…