The virtue of virtuality: the promise of agent-based epidemic modeling

Translational Research

Volumn 151, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 273-274

  Hupert, Nathaniel ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a   Mushlin, Alvin ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED MODELING; AVIAN INFLUENZA; CALCULATION; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DYNAMICS; EDITORIAL; EPIDEMIC; EVALUATION; INFLUENZA; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PANDEMIC; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION PROCESS; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 50949121877     PISSN: 19315244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2008.04.002     Document Type: Editorial

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