Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology
This book is intended as a primary resource for graduate students and researchers working in the field of infectious disease epidemiology. This collection of contributions presents deterministic and stochastic approaches for epidemic modelling and statistical inference of epidemiological parameters...
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Dordrecht :
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2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter 1: The basic reproduction number of infectious diseases: Computation and estimation using compartmental epidemic models Gerardo Chowell and Fred Brauer
- Chapter 2: Stochastic Epidemic Modeling Priscilla E. Greenwood and Luis F. Gordillo
- Chapter 3: Two critical issues in quantitative modeling of communicable diseases: Inference of unobservables and dependent happening Hiroshi Nishiura, Masayuki Kakehashi and Hisashi Inaba
- Chapter 4: A note on the definition of contacts, measures of mixing, and model parametrization Stephen Tennenbaum
- Chapter 5: The effective reproduction number as a prelude to statistical estimation of time-dependent epidemic trends Hiroshi Nishiura and Gerardo Chowell
- Chapter 6: Sensitivity of Model-Based Epidemiological Parameter Estimation to Model Assumptions Alun L. Lloyd
- Chapter 7:An ensemble trajectory method for real-time modeling and prediction of unfolding epidemics: analysis of the 2005 Marburg fever outbreak in Angola Lus̕ M. A. Bettencourt
- Chapter 8: Statistical Challenges in BioSurveillance Tom Burr, Sarah Michalak and Rick Picard. -Chapter 9:Death Records from Historical Archives: A Valuable Source of Epidemiological Information Rodolfo Acuą-Soto. -Chapter 10: Sensitivity Analysis for Uncertainty Quantification in Mathematical Models Leon Arriola and James M. Hyman. -Chapter 11: An Inverse Problem Statistical Methodology Summary Harvey T. Banks, Marie Davidian, John R. Samuels, Jr. and Karyn L.Sutton. -Chapter 12: The epidemiological impact of rotavirus vaccination programs in the United States and Mexico Eunha Shim and Carlos Castillo-Chavez.-Chapter 13: Spatial and temporal dynamics of rubella in Peru, 1997-2006: Geographic patterns, age at infection and estimation of transmissibility Daniel Rios-Doria, Gerardo Chowell, Cesar Munayco-Escate, Alvaro Witthembury and Carlos Castillo-Chavez
- Chapter 14: The Role of Nonlinear Relapse on Contagion Amongst Drinking Communities Ariel Cintrn̤-Arias, Fabio Sǹchez, Xiaohong Wang, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Dennis M. Gorman and Paul J. Gruenwald.