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Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective

Modeling Infectious Disease Parameters Based on Serological and Social Contact Data: A Modern Statistical Perspective

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Series: Statistics for Biology and Health, Book 63

Medical ReferenceProbability & Statistics

ISBN10: 1489987967
ISBN13: 9781489987969
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 15 2014
Pages: 300
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Mathematical epidemiology of infectious diseases usually involves describing the flow of individuals between mutually exclusive infection states. One of the key parameters describing the transition from the susceptible to the infected class is the hazard of infection, often referred to as the force of infection. The force of infection reflects the degree of contact with potential for transmission between infected and susceptible individuals. The mathematical relation between the force of infection and effective contact patterns is generally assumed to be subjected to the mass action principle, which yields the necessary information to estimate the basic reproduction number, another key parameter in infectious disease epidemiology.

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