The role of nonlinear relapse on contagion amongst drinking communities

Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 343-360

  Cintrón Arias, Ariel ^a   Sánchez, Fabio ^b   Wang, Xiaohong ^c   Castillo Chavez, Carlos ^c,d   Gorman, Dennis M ^e   Gruenewald, Paul J ^f  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Program on Infrastructure Policy   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^f PREVENTION RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

deterministic model; drinking behavior; drinking dynamics; small world network; social influence; stochastic model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871391581     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2313-1_14     Document Type: Chapter

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