Editorial commentary: Network epidemic models: Assumptions and interpretations

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 276-278

  Goyal, Ravi ^a   Wang, Rui ^a   Degruttola, Victor ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MODEL; MORTALITY; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUALITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84864125519     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cis388     Document Type: Note

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