Seventy-five years of estimating the force of infection from current status data
Seventy-five years of estimating the force of infection from current status data
SUMMARY The force of infection, describing the rate at which a susceptible person acquires an infection, is a key parameter in models estimating the infectious disease burden, and the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of infectious disease prevention. Since Muench formulated the first catalytic model to estimate the force of infection from …