The design and use of an agent-based model to simulate the 1918 influenza epidemic at Norway House, Manitoba

American Journal of Human Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 290-300

  Carpenter, Connie V ^a   Sattenspiel, Lisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EPIDEMIC; ETHNOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; PANDEMIC; POPULATION DISPERSAL; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SEASONAL VARIATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HISTORY; MIGRATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEASON;

METIS;

DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MANITOBA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY; SEASONS;

EID: 67449110924     PISSN: 10420533     EISSN: 15206300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.20857     Document Type: Article

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