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Description: |
xvi, 303 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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Bibliography Note: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-300) and index. |
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Summary, Etc. Note: |
Summary: "Provides systematic coverage of the mathematical theory of modelling epidemics in populations, with a clear and coherent discussion of the issues, concepts and phenomena. Mathematical modelling of epidemics is a vast and important area of study and this book helps the reader to translate, model, analyse and interpret, with numerous applications, examples and exercises to aid understanding."--Publisher description. |
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Contents Note: |
Contents: I. The bare bones: Basic issues explained in the simplest context -- 1. The epidemic in a closed population -- 2. Heterogeneity: The art of averaging -- 3. Dynamics at the demographic time scale -- II. Structured populations -- 4. The concept of state -- 5. The basic reproduction ratio -- 6. And everything else ... -- 7. Age structure -- 8. Spatial spread -- 9. Macroparasites -- 10. What is contact? -- III. The hard part: Elaborations to (almost) all exercises -- 11. Elaborations for Part I -- 12. Elaborations for Part II -- Appendix A. Stochastic basis of the Kermack-McKendrick ODE model -- Appendix B. Bibliographic skeleton. |
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Elect. Loc./Access: |
Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/onix01/99052964.html |
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