Design and Analysis of Vaccine Studies By M. Elizabeth Halloran, Ira M. Longini Jr., Claudio J. StruchinerEnglish | PDF | 2010 | 397 Pages | ISBN : 0387403132 | 10.75 MB
Widespread immunization has many different kinds of effects in individuals and populations, including in the unvaccinated individuals. The challenge is in understanding and estimating all of these effects. This book presents a unified conceptual framework of the different effects of vaccination at the individual and at the population level. The book covers many different vaccine effects, including vaccine efficacy for susceptibility, for disease, for post-infection outcomes, and for infectiousness.