"Wrong, but Useful": Negotiating Uncertainty in Infectious Disease Modelling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Christley, Robert M ^a,b   Mort, Maggie ^c   Wynne, Brian ^d   Wastling, Jonathan M ^a   Heathwaite, A Louise ^e   Pickup, Roger ^f   Austin, Zoë ^e,g   Latham, Sophia M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b National Consortium for Zoonosis Research   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DISCOURSE ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SIMULATION; FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTERVIEW; NONHUMAN; POLITICAL SYSTEM; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCESS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FOOT-AND-MOUTH DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 84885704040     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076277     Document Type: Article

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