Oscillations and chaos in epidemics: A nonlinear dynamic study of six childhood diseases in Copenhagen, Denmark

Theoretical Population Biology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 1988, Pages 344-370

  Olsen, L F ^a   Truty, G L ^a   Schaffer, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DENMARK; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DENMARK; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMAN; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0024029039     PISSN: 00405809     EISSN: 10960325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-5809(88)90019-6     Document Type: Article

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