A primer on the use of probability generating functions in infectious disease modeling

Infectious Disease Modelling

Volumn 3, Issue , 2018, Pages 192-248

  Miller, Joel C ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR DISEASE MODELING   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

ADAPTATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOEQUIVALENCE; CALCULATION; COMMUNITY; CUMULATIVE SCALE; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DYNAMICS; EBOLA HEMORRHAGIC FEVER; EPIDEMIC; EVOLUTION; EXERCISE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INFECTION; MALARIA; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PORE SIZE DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SUSCEPTIBLE POPULATION;

EID: 85059290751     PISSN: 24680427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.idm.2018.08.001     Document Type: Article

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