The interplay between determinism and stochasticity in childhood diseases

American Naturalist

Volumn 159, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 469-481

  Rohani, Pejman ^a   Keeling, Matthew J ^a   Grenfell, Bryan T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Epidemiological models; Population dynamics; Seasonality; Stochasticity

Indexed keywords

DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0036229603     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339467     Document Type: Article

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