Inference of Epidemiological Dynamics Based on Simulated Phylogenies Using Birth-Death and Coalescent Models

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Boskova, Veronika ^a   Bonhoeffer, Sebastian ^a   Stadler, Tanja ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; POPULATION STATISTICS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CONSTANT RATE; DETERMINISTICS; GENETIC SEQUENCING; MAXIMUM A POSTERIORI; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; PATHOGEN POPULATIONS; PERFORMANCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREES; POINT ESTIMATE; SIMULATION STUDIES;

DYNAMICS;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANCESTRY GROUP; ARTICLE; BIRTH RATE; COALESCENT BASED METHOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN;

BIRTH RATE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MORTALITY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84912108072     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003913     Document Type: Article

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