Mathematical and statistical modeling for emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerardo Chowell, James M. Hyman, editors.
• Editors: Chowell, Gerardo; Hyman, James M
• Contents: Preface -- A Reality of Its Own -- Modeling the Impact of Behavior Change on the Spread of Ebola -- A model for coupled outbreaks contained by behavior change -- Real-time assessment of the international spreading risk associated with the 2014 West African Ebola Outbreak -- Modeling the case of early detection of Ebola virus disease -- Modeling ring vaccination strategies to control Ebola virus disease epidemics -- Estimation of the number of sickbeds during Ebola epidemics using optimal control theory -- Inverse problems and Ebola virus disease using an age of infection model -- Assessing the Efficiency of Movement -- Restriction as a Control Strategy of Ebola -- Patch models of EVD transmission dynamics -- From bee species aggregation to models of disease avoidance: The \emph{Ben-Hur} effect} -- Designing Public Health Policies to Mitigate the Adverse Consequences of Rural-Urban Migration via Meta-Population Modeling -- Age of Infection Epidemic Models -- Optimal Control of Vaccination in an Age-Structured Cholera Model -- A Multi-risk Model for Understanding the Spread of Chlamydia -- The 1997 Measles Outbreak in Metropolitan São Paulo, Brazil: Strategic Implications of Increasing Urbanization -- Methods to determine the end of an infectious disease epidemic: A short review -- Statistical considerations in infectious disease randomized controlled trials -- Epidemic models with and without mortality: when does it matter?- Capturing Household Transmission in Compartmental Models of Infectious Disease -- Bistable endemic states in a Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible model with behavior-dependent Vaccination -- Index.
• Publisher Details: Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (ix, 356 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 616.001/5118; 510; Mathematics; Communicable diseases -- Mathematical models; Communicable diseases -- Statistical methods; Epidemiology -- Mathematical models; Epidemiology -- Statistical methods; HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General; MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine; MEDICAL -- Diseases; MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine; MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine; Communicable diseases -- Mathematical models; Epidemiology -- Mathematical models; Epidemiology -- Statistical methods; Communicable Diseases -- epidemiology; Medical -- Infectious Diseases; Medical -- Biostatistics; Medical -- Epidemiology; Infectious & contagious diseases; Probability & statistics; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Distribution (Probability theory); Emerging infectious diseases; Statistics; Epidemiology; Mathematics -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319404134; 3319404113; 9783319404110
• Related ISBNs: 331940413X; 9783319404110
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 9, 2016).
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