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Mathematical tools for understanding infectious diseases dynamics [E-Book]

By: Contributor(s): Series: Princeton series in theoretical and computational biologyPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 502 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781400845620
  • 1400845629
  • 1283578751
  • 9781283578752
Other title:
  • Mathematical tools for understanding infectious disease dynamics
Subject(s): NLM classification:
  • WA 950
Other classification:
  • SCI008000 | MAT003000 | MED022090
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The bare bones: Basic issues in the simplest context -- Part II. Structured populations -- Part III. Case studies on inference -- Part IV. Elaborations -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: "Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference, and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology. This comprehensive and accessible book also features numerous detailed exercises throughout; full elaborations to all exercises are provided. Covers the latest research in mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology Integrates deterministic and stochastic approaches Teaches skills in model construction, analysis, inference, and interpretation Features numerous exercises and their detailed elaborations Motivated by real-world applications throughout "-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-496) and index.

"Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference, and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology. This comprehensive and accessible book also features numerous detailed exercises throughout; full elaborations to all exercises are provided. Covers the latest research in mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology Integrates deterministic and stochastic approaches Teaches skills in model construction, analysis, inference, and interpretation Features numerous exercises and their detailed elaborations Motivated by real-world applications throughout "-- Provided by publisher.

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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I. The bare bones: Basic issues in the simplest context -- Part II. Structured populations -- Part III. Case studies on inference -- Part IV. Elaborations -- Bibliography -- Index

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