Richards model: A simple procedure for real-time prediction of outbreak severity

Modeling And Dynamics Of Infectious Diseases

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 216-236

  Hsieh, Ying Hen ^a  

^a Chung Esing University   (China)

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