Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology

Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology compiles t- oretical and practical contributions of experts in the analysis of infectious disease epidemics in a single volume. Recent collections have focused in the analyses and simulation of deterministic and stochastic models who...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Chowell, Gerardo (Editor), Hayman, James M. (Editor), Bettencourt, Luís M. A. (Editor), Castillo-Chavez, Carlos (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edition:1st ed. 2009.
Subjects:
Probabilities.
Medicine-Research.
Biology-Research.
Diseases.
Biometry.
Epidemiology.
Probability Theory.
Biomedical Research.
Biostatistics.
Online Access:Texto Completo
Table of Contents:
  • The Basic Reproduction Number of Infectious Diseases: Computation and Estimation Using Compartmental Epidemic Models
  • Stochastic Epidemic Modeling
  • Two Critical Issues in Quantitative Modeling of Communicable Diseases: Inference of Unobservables and Dependent Happening
  • The Chain of Infection, Contacts, and Model Parametrization
  • The Effective Reproduction Number as a Prelude to Statistical Estimation of Time-Dependent Epidemic Trends
  • Sensitivity of Model-Based Epidemiological Parameter Estimation to Model Assumptions
  • An Ensemble Trajectory Method for Real-Time Modeling and Prediction of Unfolding Epidemics: Analysis of the 2005 Marburg Fever Outbreak in Angola
  • Statistical Challenges in BioSurveillance
  • Death Records from Historical Archives: A Valuable Source of Epidemiological Information
  • Sensitivity Analysis for Uncertainty Quantification in Mathematical Models
  • An Inverse Problem Statistical Methodology Summary
  • The Epidemiological Impact of Rotavirus Vaccination Programs in the United States and Mexico
  • Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Rubella in Peru, 1997-2006: Geographic Patterns, Age at Infection and Estimation of Transmissibility
  • The Role of Nonlinear Relapse on Contagion Amongst Drinking Communities.

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