An epidemiological modeling and data integration framework

Methods of Information in Medicine

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 290-296

  Pfeifer, B ^a   Wurz, M ^a   Hanser, F ^a   Seger, M ^a   Netzer, M ^a   Osl, M ^a   Modre Osprian, R ^b   Schreier, G ^b   Baumgartner, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Computer models; Computer simulation; Infectious disease transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 77952401467     PISSN: 00261270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3414/ME09-02-0025     Document Type: Article

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