Quantitative Methods for Investigating Infectious Disease Outbreaks

• Main Authors: Yan, Ping (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Chowell, Gerardo (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Texts in Applied Mathematics, 70
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Mathematical models.; Biomathematics.; Infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Mathematics of Planet Earth.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Mathematical and Computational Biology.; Infectious Diseases.

This book provides a systematic treatment of the mathematical underpinnings of work in the theory of outbreak dynamics and their control, covering balanced perspectives between theory and practice including new material on contemporary topics in the field of infectious disease modelling. Specificall...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Shapes of hazard functions and lifetime distributions
• Random counts and counting processes
• The initial phase of an outbreak
• Compartment models
• More complex models and control measures
• Some statistical issues
• Outbreak trajectories
• Spatial structures and behavior change.