Epidemics: The fitting of the first dynamic models to data

Journal of Contemporary Mathematical Analysis

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-104

  Dietz, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dynamic models in medicine; Epidemics; Mathematical modelling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952909914     PISSN: 10683623     EISSN: 19349416     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3103/S1068362309020034     Document Type: Article

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