Zombies. Issue 5 (December 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zelterman, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Significance. Volume 11:Issue 5(2014)
• Page Start: 38
• Page End: 43
• Publication Date: 2014-12
• Subjects: Statistics -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Periodicals; 001.422
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2014.00783.x
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-9705

Abstract

<abstract abstract-type="main"> <title> <x xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>What if zombies were real? And what if, rather than wiping out humanity, we found a way to coexist, to manage the problem? We would need data, of course information about the undead horde – to help develop an appropriate civil response. And we would need people like <bold>Daniel Zelterman</bold>, professor of biostatistics at Yale University, to compile and analyse that data. In this extract from the new book, <italic>Mathematical Modelling of Zombies</italic> – billed as a maths‐based survival guide – Zelterman explores the distribution of the US zombie population in the days, weeks and months that followed the night of the living dead</p> </abstract>