Extracting the time-dependent transmission rate from infection data via solution of an inverse ODE problem

Journal of Biological Dynamics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 509-523

  Pollicott, Mark ^a   Wang, Hao ^b   Weiss, Howard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

epidemiology; extraction algorithm; Fourier analysis; inverse problem; measles; modulus of Fourier transform; overfitting; periodicity; time dependent transmission rate

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MEASLES; STATISTICS; TIME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFECTION; MEASLES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84868336032     PISSN: 17513758     EISSN: 17513766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17513758.2011.645510     Document Type: Article

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