Parametric approaches

Given an explicit (full) model of disease, estimate all parameters (or some parameters, e.g. beta/R0 only assuming others known from independent sources) by fitting to disease dynamics

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Controlling Infectious Diseases
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Open mathematical/computational problems?
Statistical Methods for model selection and parameter estimation
Parametric approaches
Household models
Least-squares fitting
Maximum likelihood estimation
Methods incorporating both process and observation error
Sensitive to model misspecification
Nonparametric approaches
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Unobservable events
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