TY - BOOK ID - 8210122 TI - Mathematical and statistical estimation approaches in epidemiology AU - Chowell, Gerardo. AU - Bettencourt, Luis M. A. AU - Castillo-Chavez, Carlos. AU - Hyman, James M. PY - 2009 SN - 9400779909 9048123127 9786612333248 1282333240 9048123135 PB - Dordrecht : Springer-Verlag, DB - UniCat KW - Epidemiology --Mathematics. KW - Epidemiology --Statistical methods. KW - Epidemiology KW - Statistics as Topic KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Public Health KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Mathematics KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Natural Science Disciplines KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Health Care KW - Mathematical Statistics KW - Epidemiology & Epidemics KW - Physical Sciences & Mathematics KW - Health & Biological Sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Emerging infectious diseases. KW - Epidemiology. KW - Medicine. KW - Statistics. KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical science KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Emerging infections KW - New infectious diseases KW - Re-emerging infectious diseases KW - Reemerging infectious diseases KW - Mathematics. KW - Infectious diseases. KW - Probabilities. KW - Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes. KW - Biomedicine general. KW - Infectious Diseases. KW - Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences. KW - Econometrics KW - Diseases KW - Public health KW - Human biology KW - Life sciences KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Communicable diseases KW - Distribution (Probability theory. KW - Distribution functions KW - Frequency distribution KW - Characteristic functions KW - Probabilities KW - Health Workforce KW - Statistics . KW - Biomedicine, general. KW - Probability KW - Statistical inference KW - Combinations KW - Chance KW - Least squares KW - Mathematical statistics KW - Risk UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8210122 AB - Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology compiles t- oretical and practical contributions of experts in the analysis of infectious disease epidemics in a single volume. Recent collections have focused in the analyses and simulation of deterministic and stochastic models whose aim is to identify and rank epidemiological and social mechanisms responsible for disease transmission. The contributions in this volume focus on the connections between models and disease data with emphasis on the application of mathematical and statistical approaches that quantify model and data uncertainty. The book is aimed at public health experts, applied mathematicians and sci- tists in the life and social sciences, particularly graduate or advanced undergraduate students, who are interested not only in building and connecting models to data but also in applying and developing methods that quantify uncertainty in the context of infectious diseases. Chowell and Brauer open this volume with an overview of the classical disease transmission models of Kermack-McKendrick including extensions that account for increased levels of epidemiological heterogeneity. Their theoretical tour is followed by the introduction of a simple methodology for the estimation of, the basic reproduction number,R . The use of this methodology 0 is illustrated, using regional data for 1918–1919 and 1968 in uenza pandemics. ER -