Application of Whittle's stochastic threshold theorem to a chickenpox outbreak;Aplicación del teorema del umbral estocástico de Whittle a un brote de varicela

Revista de Saude Publica

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 656-662

  Hincapié Palacio, Doracelly ^a   Ospina Giraldo, Juan Fernando ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ANTIOQUIA   (Colombia)

^b Grupo de Lógica y Computación   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Chickenpox; Disease outbreaks; Epidemiologic methods; Mathematical models; Stochastic processes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHICKENPOX; COLOMBIA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL;

CHICKENPOX; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOMBIA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FACTORS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROBABILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 33847746216     PISSN: 00348910     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102006000500015     Document Type: Article

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