The geographic spread of infectious diseases
Subtitle: models and applications
By: Lisa Sattenspiel ; with contributions from Alun Lloyd
Contributors: Lloyd, Alun, 1970-
Series: Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology; Princeton series in theoretical and computational biology
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780691121321
Subjects: Communicable Diseases; Theoretical Models; Statistics & numerical data; Transmission; Mathematical models; Epidemiology; Disease Outbreaks; Epidemiologic Methods; Communicable diseases
Description: x, 286 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: The art of epidemic modeling : concepts and basic structures; title: Modeling the geographic spread of influenza epidemics; title: Modeling geographic spread I : population-based approaches; title: Spatial heterogeneity and endemicity : the case of measles; title: Modeling geographic spread II : individual-based approaches; title: Spatial models and the control of foot-and-mouth disease; title: Maps, projections, and GIS : geographers' approaches; title: Revisiting SARS and looking to the future.