An evidence synthesis approach to estimating the incidence of seasonal influenza in the Netherlands

To estimate, using Bayesian evidence synthesis, the age‐group‐specific annual incidence of symptomatic infection with seasonal influenza in the Netherlands over the period 2005–2007.

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