Theory of early warning signals of disease emergenceand leading indicators of elimination

Theoretical Ecology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 333-357

  O'Regan, Suzanne M ^a   Drake, John M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bifurcation delay; Critical transition; SIR; SIS; Transcritical bifurcation; van Kampen system size expansion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BIFURCATION; CORRELATION; DATA PROCESSING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY;

EID: 84880673760     PISSN: 18741738     EISSN: 18741746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12080-013-0185-5     Document Type: Article

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