Mathematical Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Model Building, Analysis and InterpretationISBN: 978-0-471-98682-9
Hardcover
320 pages
April 2000
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What it is All About and What Not.
The Top Down Approach.
A Workbook.
Portrait of the Reader as a Young Person.
A Brief Outline of the Book.
Acknowledgments.
And What About Reality?
I: THE BARE BONES: BASIC ISSUES EXPLAINED IN THE SIMPLEST CONTEXT.
The Epidemic in a Closed Population.
Heterogeneity: The Art of Averaging.
Dynamics at the Demographic Time Scale.
II: STRUCTURED POPULATIONS.
The Concept of State.
The Basic Reproduction Ratio.
And Everything Else......
Age Structure.
Spatial Spread.
Macroparasites.
What is Contact?
III: THE HARD PART: ELABORATIONS (ALMOST) ALL EXERCISES.
Elaborations for Part I.
Elaborations for Part II.
Appendix A: Stochastic Basic of the Kermack-McKendrick ODE Model.
Appendix B: Bibliographic Skeleton.
Index.
