Model Selection and Evaluation Based on Emerging Infectious Disease Data Sets including A/H1N1 and Ebola

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2015, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Liu, Wendi ^a   Tang, Sanyi ^a   Xiao, Yanni ^b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL PROLIFERATION; DISEASE CONTROL; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ESTIMATING PARAMETERS; MODEL PARAMETERS; MODEL SELECTION; RICHARDS MODELS; SIERRA LEONE; TURNING POINTS;

DISEASES;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; DISEASE MODEL; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EBOLAVIRUS; EPIDEMIC; GOMPERTZ MODEL; GUINEA; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); INFLUENZA A VIRUS (H1N1); LIBERIA; PROBABILITY; RICHARDS MODEL; ROSENZWEG MODEL; SIERRA LEONE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ALGORITHM; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION; VALIDATION STUDY;

ALGORITHMS; BASIC REPRODUCTION NUMBER; BAYES THEOREM; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84942801484     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2015/207105     Document Type: Article

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