FluTE, a publicly available stochastic influenza epidemic simulation model

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Chao, Dennis L ^a   Halloran, M Elizabeth ^a,b   Obenchain, Valerie J ^a   Longini, Ira M ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER MODELS; CONTACT NETWORKS; EPIDEMIC SIMULATIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA EPIDEMICS; LARGE POPULATION; SIMULATION MODEL; SOCIAL CONTACTS; STOCHASTIC-MODELING; STOCHASTICS;

STOCHASTIC MODELS;

INFLUENZA VACCINE; SIALIDASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H2N2; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS;

ORTHOMYXOVIRIDAE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; HUMANS; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREVALENCE; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 76749154557     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000656     Document Type: Article

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