Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics

Zusatztext "This book will soon be a classic in the theoretical epidemiology and modeling literature." ---Mirjam Kretzschmar! Biometrical Journal Zusammenfassung Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology! and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models! and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference! and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology. This comprehensive and accessible book also features numerous detailed exercises throughout; full elaborations to all exercises are provided. Covers the latest research in mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology Integrates deterministic and stochastic approaches Teaches skills in model construction! analysis! inference! and interpretation Features numerous exercises and their detailed elaborations Motivated by real-world applications throughout Informationen zum Autor Odo Diekmann is professor of mathematical analysis at Utrecht University. Hans Heesterbeek is professor of theoretical epidemiology at Utrecht University. Tom Britton is professor of mathematical statistics at Stockholm University. Klappentext Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology! and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models! and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference! and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology. This comprehensive and accessible book also features numerous detailed exercises throughout; full elaborations to all exercises are provided. Covers the latest research in mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology Integrates deterministic and stochastic approaches Teaches skills in model construction! analysis! inference! and interpretation Features numerous exercises and their detailed elaborations Motivated by real-world applications throughout Inhaltsverzeichnis 21276195 ...

Autorentext
Odo Diekmann, Hans Heesterbeek & Tom Britton

Klappentext
Mathematical modeling is critical to our understanding of how infectious diseases spread at the individual and population levels. This book gives readers the necessary skills to correctly formulate and analyze mathematical models in infectious disease epidemiology, and is the first treatment of the subject to integrate deterministic and stochastic models and methods. Mathematical Tools for Understanding Infectious Disease Dynamics fully explains how to translate biological assumptions into mathematics to construct useful and consistent models, and how to use the biological interpretation and mathematical reasoning to analyze these models. It shows how to relate models to data through statistical inference, and how to gain important insights into infectious disease dynamics by translating mathematical results back to biology. This comprehensive and accessible book also features numerous detailed exercises throughout; full elaborations to all exercises are provided. Covers the latest research in mathematical modeling of infectious disease epidemiology Integrates deterministic and stochastic approaches Teaches skills in model construction, analysis, inference, and interpretation Features numerous exercises and their detailed elaborations Motivated by real-world applications throughout

Inhalt
Preface xi A brief outline of the book xii I The bare bones: Basic issues in the simplest context 1 1 The epidemic in a closed population 3 1.1 The questions (and the underlying assumptions) 3 1.2 Initial growth 4 1.3 The final size 14 1.4 The epidemic in a closed population: summary 28 2 Heterogeneity: The art of averaging 33 2.1 Differences in infectivity 33 2.2 Differences in infectivity and susceptibility 39 2.3 The pitfall of overlooking dependence 41 2.4 Heterogeneity: a preliminary conclusion 43 3 Stochastic modeling: The impact of chance 45 3.1 The prototype stochastic epidemic model 46 3.2 Two special cases 48 3.3 Initial phase of the stochastic epidemic 51 3.4 Approximation of the main part of the epidemic 58 3.5 Approximation of the final size 60 3.6 The duration of the epidemic 69 3.7 Stochastic modeling: summary 71 4 Dynamics at the demographic time scale 73 4.1 Repeated outbreaks versus persistence 73 4.2 Fluctuations around the endemic steady state 75 4.3 Vaccination 84 4.4 Regulation of host populations 87 4.5 Tools for evolutionary contemplation 91 4.6 Markov chains: models of infection in the ICU 101 4.7 Time to extinction and critical community size 107 4.8 Beyond a single outbreak: summary 124 5 Inference, or how to deduce conclusions from data 127 5.1 Introduction 127 5.2 Maximum likelihood estimation 127 5.3 An example of estimation: the ICU model 130 5.4 The prototype stochastic epidemic model 134 5.5 ML-estimation of alpha and beta in the ICU model 146 5.6 The challenge of reality: summary 148 II Structured populations 151 6 The concept of state 153 6.1 i-states 153 6.2 p-states 157 6.3 Recapitulation, problem formulation and outlook 159 7 The basic reproduction number 161 7.1 The definition of R0 161 7.2 NGM for compartmental systems 166 7.3 General h-state 173 7.4 Conditions that simplify the computation of R0 175 7.5 Sub-models for the kernel 179 7.6 Sensitivity analysis of R0 181 7.7 Extended example: two diseases 183 7.8 Pair formation models 189 7.9 Invasion under periodic environmental conditions 192 7.10 Targeted control 199 7.11 Summary 203 8 Other indicators of severity 205 8.1 The probability of a major outbreak 205 8.2 The intrinsic growth rate 212 8.3 A brief look at final size and endemic level 219 8.4 Simplifications under separable mixing 221 9 Age structure 227 9.1 Demography 227 9.2 Contacts 228 9.3 The next-generation operator 229 9.4 Interval decomposition 232 9.5 The endemic steady state 233 9.6 Vaccination 234 10 Spatial spread 239 10.1 Posing the problem 239 10.2 Warming up: the linear diffusion equation 240 10.3 Verbal reflections suggesting robustness 242 10.4 Linear structured population models 244 10.5 The nonlinear situation 246 10.6 Summary: the speed of propagation 248 10.7 Addendum on local finiteness 249 11 Macroparasites 251 11.1 Introduction 251 11.2 Counting parasite load 253 11.3 The calculation of R0 for life cycles 260 11.4 A 'pathological' model 261 12 What is contact? 265 12.1 Introduction 265 12.2 Contact duration 265 12.3 Consistency conditions 272 12.4 Effects of subdivision 274 12.5 Stochastic final size and multi-level mixing 278 12.6 Network models (an idiosyncratic view) 286 12.7 A primer on pair approximation 302 III Case studies on inference 307 13 Estimators of R0 derived from mechanistic models 309 13.1 Introduction 309 13.2 Final size and age-structured data 311 13.3 Estimating R0 from a transmission experiment 319 13.4 Estimators base…

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