Parameter estimation and site-specific alibration of disease transmission models

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 673, Issue , 2010, Pages 99-111

  Spear, Robert C ^a   Hubbard, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BAYES THEOREM; CALIBRATION; CHINA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE CONTROL; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VECTOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHISTOSOMA JAPONICUM; SCHISTOSOMIASIS; SPECIES HABITAT; THEORETICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTION CONTROL; PARASITOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SNAIL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; DISEASE VECTORS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; RISK FACTORS; SCHISTOSOMIASIS JAPONICA; SNAILS;

EID: 77955907600     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6064-1_7     Document Type: Article

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