Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for a SARS model with time-varying inputs and outputs

Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 527-544

  McLeod, Robert G ^a   Brewster, John F ^b   Gumel, Abba B ^b   Slonowsky, Dean A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c VANCOUVER ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control reproduction number; Epidemiological model; Functional output; Latin hypercube sampling; Partial rank correlation coefficients

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846995623     PISSN: 15471063     EISSN: 15510018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/mbe.2006.3.527     Document Type: Article

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