Stochastic individual-based modelling of influenza spread for the assessment of public health interventions

MODSIM 2011 - 19th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation - Sustaining Our Future: Understanding and Living with Uncertainty

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 933-939

  Kelso, J K ^a   Milne, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Infectious disease modelling; Influenza

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT MODELS; AGENT-BASED MODELLING; ANTI-VIRAL DRUGS; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; GLOBAL POPULATION; HUMAN BEHAVIOURS; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; INDIVIDUAL-BASED MODELLING; INDIVIDUAL-BASED SIMULATIONS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; INFLUENZA; PANDEMIC STRAINS; PERSONAL HYGIENE; RESEARCH GROUPS; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SPATIAL GRANULARITY; STATE INFORMATION; TRACTABLE ANALYSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE CONTROL; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84858851593     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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