Stochastic modeling of animal epidemics using data collected over three different spatial scales

Epidemics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 61-70

  Rorres, Chris ^a   Pelletier, Sky T K ^a   Smith, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Avian influenza; Estimators; Mathematical models; Parameter estimation; ZIP codes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AVIAN INFLUENZA; DATA ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIC; KERNEL METHOD; NONHUMAN; PARAMETER; POULTRY; POULTRY FARMING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL; UNITED STATES; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; GEOGRAPHY; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PENNSYLVANIA; POULTRY; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 79952318767     PISSN: 17554365     EISSN: 18780067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epidem.2011.02.003     Document Type: Article

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