Research Catalog

Title

Epidemic models : their structure and relation to data / edited by Denis Mollison.

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mollison, Denis

Description

xvii, 424 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Publications of the Newton Institute

Uniform Title

Publications of the Newton Institute.

Subjects

• Epidemiology > Mathematical models
• Methods
• Epidemiology > Methodology

Contents

• Some problems in the theory of infectious disease transmission and control / Klaus Dietz -- The structure of epidemic models / Denis Mollison -- Coupling methods in epidemic theory / Frank Ball -- Collective epidemic processes: a general modelling approach to the final outcome of SIR epidemics / Claude Lefevre and Philippe Picard -- The threshold concept in deterministic and stochastic models / Ingemar Nasell -- How does transmission of infection depend on population size? / Mart de Jong, Odo Diekmann and Hans Heesterbeek -- The legacy of Kermack and McKendrick / Odo Diekmann, Hans Metz and Hans Heesterbeek -- Incorporating spatial components into models of epidemic spread / Andrew Cliff -- Velocities of epidemic spread / Hans Metz and Frank van den Bosch -- Spatial epidemic models / Richard Durrett -- A perturbation approach to nonlinear deterministic epidemic waves / Henry Daniels --
• Epidemic plant diseases: a stochastic model of leaf and stem lesion / Lynne Billard, P. W. A. Dayananda and Zhen Zhao -- Detecting nonlinearity and chaos in epidemic data / Stephen Ellner, Ronald Gallant and James Theiler -- Seasonality, demography and the dynamics of measles in developed countries / Bryan Grenfell, Ben Bolker and Adam Kleczkowski -- Grouping in population models / Simon Levin -- Core groups and R[subscript 0]s for subgroups in heterogeneous SIS and SI models / John Jacquez, Carl Simon and James Koopman -- Data driven network models for the spread of disease / Martina Morris -- The effect of antigenic diversity on endemic prevalence / Sunetra Gupta, Katherine Trenholme, Martin Cox, Roy Anderson and Karen Day -- Statistical challenges of epidemic data / Niels Becker -- Primary components of epidemic data / Niels Becker -- Primary components of epidemic models / Andrew Cairns --
• Estimation and prediction in tropical disease control: the example of onchocerciasis / Hans Remme, Soumbey Alley and Anton Plaisier -- Some current trends in estimating vaccine efficacy / Ira Longini, Elizabeth Halloran and Michael Haber -- Operational modelling of HIV/AIDS to assist public health control / Norman Bailey.

ISBN

0521475368 (hc)

LCCN

95015185

OCLC

• 501482328
• ocn501482328
• SCSB-4778304

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries