Stochasticity and the limits to confidence when estimating R0 of Ebola and other emerging infectious diseases

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 408, Issue , 2016, Pages 145-154

  Taylor, Bradford P ^a   Dushoff, Jonathan ^b   Weitz, Joshua S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Demographic stochasticity; Infectious diseases

Indexed keywords

DISEASE SPREAD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EBOLA VIRUS DISEASE; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DEMOGRAPHY; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; WEST AFRICAN; AFRICA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MARKOV CHAIN; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSMISSION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

GUINEA; LIBERIA [WEST AFRICA]; SIERRA LEONE;

EBOLA VIRUS;

AFRICA, WESTERN; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; EPIDEMICS; HEMORRHAGIC FEVER, EBOLA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84982221163     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2016.08.016     Document Type: Article

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