Global disease spread: Statistics and estimation of arrival times

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 509-522

  Gautreau, Aurélien ^a,b   Barrat, Alain ^a,b,c   Barthélemy, Marc ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

^d CEA DIF   (France)

Author keywords

Complex networks; Epidemiology; World airport network

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; EPIDEMIC; ESTIMATION METHOD; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; METAPOPULATION; POPULATION MODELING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUBPOPULATION;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METAPOPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AIRCRAFT; BIOMETRY; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; HUMANS; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TRAVEL; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 40849086157     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.12.001     Document Type: Article

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