Limits to forecasting precision for outbreaks of directly transmitted diseases

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-62

  Drake, John M ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; FORECASTING; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS; TIME;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 32044470470     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030003     Document Type: Article

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