Perfect counterfactuals for epidemic simulations

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 374, Issue 1776, 2019, Pages

  Kaminsky, Joshua ^a   Keegan, Lindsay T ^a   Jessica E Metcalf, C ^a,b   Lessler, Justin ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactuals; Infectious disease dynamics; Infectious disease epidemiology; Network models

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE CONTROL; EPIDEMIC; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIMULATION; STOCHASTICITY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 85065399630     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0279     Document Type: Article

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