Research project

Using capture-recapture methods for estimating the completeness of contact-tracing in infectious disease occurrence

Research groups:
Lead researcher:

Professor Dankmar Böhning
Status:

Active

Project overview

In the occurrence of an infectious disease outbreak, contact-tracing is one of the methods to contain the disease spread. It is important is that contact-tracing is as complete as possible. The project uses capture-recapture methods to estimate the completeness of contact tracing for the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand.

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Dankmar Böhning

Professor of Medical Statistics

Research interests

Meta-analysis
Application of capture-recapture methods in Health and Social Science

Connect with Dankmar

Email: d.a.bohning@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI)

We use statistics and demography methodologies to improve the way data is used.

Statistics

Our research is focussed on three themes: design and analysis of experiments, statistical modelling, and biostatistics. As part of the Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI), we have close links with statisticians and stochastic modellers across the University, especially those in the Division of Social Statistics and Demography.