Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death

• Main Authors: Christakos, George (Author), Olea, Ricardo A. (Author), Serre, Marc L. (Author), Yu, Hwa-Lung (Author), Wang, Lin-Lin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Environment.; Earth sciences.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Bioinformatics.; Physics.; Environmental sciences.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Public Health.; Earth Sciences, general.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

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Table of Contents:

• Toward an Interdisciplinary Methodology
• Stochastic Modelling
• Black Death: The Background
• Mathematical Formulation of the Knowledge Bases
• Spatiotemporal Mapping of the Epidemic
• Epea Pteroenta.