Shkedy, Ziv; Aerts, Marc; Molenberghs, Geert; Beutels, … - In: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C 52 (2003) 4, pp. 469-485
On the basis of serological data from prevalence studies of rubella, mumps and hepatitis A, the paper describes a flexible local maximum likelihood method for the estimation of the rate at which susceptible individuals acquire infection at different ages. In contrast with parametric models that...