Signatures of non-homogeneous mixing in disease outbreaks

DOI10.1016/j.mcm.2007.09.009zbMath1145.92335OpenAlexW1979736216MaRDI QIDQ949526

Tom L. Burr, Gerardo Chowell

Publication date: 21 October 2008

Published in: Mathematical and Computer Modelling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcm.2007.09.009

zbMATH Keywords

parameter estimationheterogeneityepidemic modelfinal epidemic sizehomogeneous mixing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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Uses Software

• Matlab
• R

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