Modelling gender differences in drug abuse epidemics

DOI10.1007/S40819-017-0477-3MaRDI QIDQ1700484zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors E. T. Ngarakana-Gwasira, Josiah Mushanyu, Farai Nyabadza, Phillip Mafuta

Publication date 6 March 2018

Published in International Journal of Applied and Computational Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s40819-017-0477-3

zbMATH Keywords

abuse reproduction numberdrug abusegender differencesleast squares curve fitting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Epidemiology (92D30)

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• Matlab

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