Modelling Epidemics
- ISBN-10
- 0749256605
- ISBN-13
- 9780749256609
- Category
- Communicable diseases
- Pages
- 74
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- The Open University
- Author
- Paddy Farrington
Description
Modelling Epidemics has a short introduction to rates and risks of epidemics; models of transmission; the mechanism of herd immunity; epidemiological parameters, such as the reproduction number and the critical immunization threshold as well as the impact of vaccinations.
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