Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology (Hardcover)

Chapter 1: The basic reproduction number of infectious diseases: Computation and estimation using compartmental epidemic models Gerardo Chowell and Fred Brauer Chapter 2: Stochastic Epidemic Modeling Priscilla E. Greenwood and Luis F. Gordillo Chapter 3: Two critical issues in quantitative modeling of communicable diseases: Inference of unobservables and dependent happening Hiroshi Nishiura, Masayuki Kakehashi and Hisashi Inaba Chapter 4: A note on the definition of contacts, measures of mixing, and model parametrization Stephen Tennenbaum Chapter 5: The effective reproduction number as a prelude to statistical estimation of time-dependent epidemic trends Hiroshi Nishiura and Gerardo Chowell Chapter 6: Sensitivity of Model-Based Epidemiological Parameter Estimation to Model Assumptions Alun L. Lloyd Chapter 7:An ensemble trajectory method for real-time modeling and prediction of unfolding epidemics: analysis of the 2005 Marburg fever outbreak in Angola Luis M. A. Bettencourt Chapter 8: Statistical Challenges in BioSurveillance Tom Burr, Sarah Michalak and Rick Picard Chapter 9:Death Records from Historical Archives: A Valuable Source of Epidemiological Information Rodolfo Acuna-Soto Chapter 10: Sensitivity Analysis for Uncertainty Quantification in Mathematical Models Leon Arriola and James M. Hyman Chapter 11: An Inverse Problem Statistical Methodology Summary H. T. Banks, Marie Davidian, John R. Samuels, Jr. and Karyn L.Sutton Chapter 12: The epidemiological impact of rotavirus vaccination programs in the United States and Mexico Eunha Shim and Carlos Castillo-Chavez Chapter 13: Spatial and temporal dynamics of rubella in Peru, 1997-2006: Geographic patterns, age at infection and estimation of transmissibility Daniel Rios-Doria, Gerardo Chowell, Cesar Munayco-Escate, Alvaro Witthembury and Carlos Castillo-Chavez Chapter 14: TheRole of Nonlinear Relapse on Contagion Amongst Drinking Communities Ariel Cintron-Arias, Fabio Sanchez, Xiaohong Wang, Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Dennis M. Gorman and Paul J. Gruenwald