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In Chaps. 6–8, (flexible) parametric, nonlinear, nonparametric, and semi-parametric models to estimate the force of infection from seroprevalence data have been introduced. All these methods rely on the steady-state assumption of which the plausibility is untestable in case of one cross-sectional sample (Keiding 1991; Nagelkerke et al. 1999).
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Hens, N., Shkedy, Z., Aerts, M., Faes, C., Van Damme, P., Beutels, P. (2012). The Constraint of Monotonicity. In: Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data. Statistics for Biology and Health, vol 63. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4072-7_9
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