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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.
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THE BARE BONES: BASIC ISSUES EXPLAINED IN THE SIMPLEST CONTEXT. The Epidemic in a Closed Population. Heterogeneity: The Art of Averaging. Dynamics at the Demographic Time scale. STRUCTURED POPULATIONS. The Concept of State. The Basic Reproduction Ratio. And Everything else... Age Structure. Spatial Spread. Macroparasites. What is Contact? THE HARD PART: ELABORATIONS TO (ALMOST) ALL EXERCISES. Elaborations for Part I. Elaborations for Part II. Appendices. Index.
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By: O Diekmann and JAP Heesterbeek
303 pages, Figs
this is a very well-written book...(Int. Jnl of Epidemiology, Vol. 30/1, 2001) "The extensive exercises make the book suitable not only for courses in modeling, but also for self-study by epidemiologists, mathematicians, and statisticians." (SIAM Review, Vol. 43, No. 4) "An attractive feature is that over one-third of the book is devoted to worked-out answers to the exercises" (Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics Review. Vol. 43 No.4. 2001)