Stochastic epidemic outbreaks: Why epidemics are like lasers

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5471, Issue , 2004, Pages 266-279

  Schwartz, Ira B ^a   Billings, Lora ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROBES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; CHAOS THEORY; DATA RECORDING; NOISE ABATEMENT; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES; TOPOLOGY;

LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS;

EID: 4344570088     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.547642     Document Type: Conference Paper

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