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Offers an introduction to the fundamental methods and techniques and the frontiers of infectious disease modeling, parameter estimation and transmission dynamics. This work provides complementary approaches, from deterministic to statistical to network modeling.
List of contents
A Brief Introduction of Some Results on Epidemiology Obtained by the Research Group in XJTU (Z Ma); Modeling SARS, West Nile Virus, Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Canadian Team's Adventure (F Brauer & J Wu); Diseases in Metapopulations (J Arino); Modeling the Start of a Disease Outbreak (F Brauer); Mathematical Techniques in the Evolutionary Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (T Day); The Uses of Epidemiological Models in the Study of Disease Control (Z Feng et al.); Assessing the Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome and Ensuring Optimal Mitigation via Mathematical Modeling (J W Glasser & M Birmingham); Persistence of Vertically Transmitted Parasite Strains Which Protect Against More Virulent Horizontally Transmitted Strains (T Dhirasakdanon & H R Thieme); Richards Model: A Simple Procedure for Real-Time Prediction of Outbreak Severity (Y-H Hsieh); The Basic Reproduction Number and the Final Size of an Epidemic (J Watmough); Epidemic Models with Reservoirs (K P Hadeler); Global Stability in Multigroup Epidemic Models (H Guo et al.); Epidemic Models with Time Delays (W Wang); A Simulation Approach to Analysis of Antiviral Stockpile Sizes for Infuenza Pandemic (S Zhang); Modeling and Simulation Studies of West Nile Virus in Southern Ontario, Canada (H Zhu).
