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利用小规模暴发估计疫苗效力AI 解读

Let CV and C0 denote the number of cases among vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals, respectively, and let υ be the proportion of individuals vaccinated. The quantity ê = 1–(1–υ)CV/(υC0) = 1–(relative attack rate) is the most used estimator of the effectiveness of a vaccine to protect against infection. For a wide class of vaccine responses, a family of transmission models and three types of community settings, this paper investigates what ê actually estimates. It does so…

预测变量为比例时的回归问题AI 解读

Summary That proportions must sum to unity results in the need for adaptations to commonly used regression techniques when these are applied to proportions. Some such adaptations are considered here.