Avoidable errors in the modelling of outbreaks of emerging pathogens, with special reference to Ebola

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1806, 2015, Pages

  King, Aaron A ^a,b   De Cellés, Matthieu Domenech ^a   Magpantay, Felicia M G ^a   Rohani, Pejman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ebola virus disease; Emerginginfectious disease; Forecast

Indexed keywords

DISEASE INCIDENCE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERROR ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PATHOGEN; POPULATION OUTBREAK; PUBLIC HEALTH; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTICITY; VIRAL DISEASE;

WEST AFRICA;

EBOLA VIRUS;

AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; STATISTICAL BIAS; THEORETICAL MODEL; VIROLOGY;

AFRICA, WESTERN; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; EBOLAVIRUS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84926359252     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0347     Document Type: Article

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