Transmission network of the 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone

Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Volumn 12, Issue 112, 2015, Pages

  Yang, Wan ^a   Zhang, Wenyi ^b   Kargbo, David ^c   Yang, Ruifu ^b   Chen, Yong ^b   Chen, Zeliang ^b   Kamara, Abdul ^c   Kargbo, Brima ^c   Kandula, Sasikiran ^a   Karspeck, Alicia ^d   Liu, Chao ^b   Shaman, Jeffrey ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b China Mobile Laboratory Response Team for Ebola in Sierra Leone   (Sierra Leone)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SANITATION   (Sierra Leone)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ebola; Ensemble adjustment Kalman filter; Gravity model; Transmission network

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; DISEASE CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFERENCE ENGINES; KALMAN FILTERS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; EBOLA; EFFECTIVE PLANNING; EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASE; ENSEMBLE ADJUSTMENT KALMAN FILTER; GRAVITY MODEL; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OBSERVATIONAL ERRORS;

DISEASES;

ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION SIZE; SIERRA LEONE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MALE; TRANSMISSION;

BIOBEHAVIORAL SCIENCES; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; HUMANS; MALE; SIERRA LEONE;

EID: 84948663330     PISSN: 17425689     EISSN: 17425662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2015.0536     Document Type: Article

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