Statistical Aspects of BSE and vCJD
Subtitle: Models for Epidemics (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability)
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: July 21, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780849303869
Subjects: Animal pathology & diseases; Applied mathematics; Epidemiology & medical statistics; Infectious & contagious diseases; Probability & statistics; Public Health; Mathematical Statistics; Statistical methods; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Probability & Statistics - General; Science/Mathematics; Prion diseases; Biostatistics; Epidemiology; Mathematics / Statistics; Bovine spongiform encephalopat; Bovine spongiform encephalopathy; Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
First sentence: Infectious diseases have been a major cause of mortality and thus an important force of natural selection in both animal and plant communities.