Application I: Spread of Influenza

Christiane Fuchs
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Christiane Fuchs: Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute for Bioinformatics and Systems Biology

Chapter Chapter 8 in Inference for Diffusion Processes, 2013, pp 281-303 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract As a first application of the methods introduced in the first two parts of this book, this chapter investigates the spread of human influenza. More precisely, it analyses a well-known dataset on an influenza outbreak in a British boarding school and the spatial spread of influenza in Germany during the season 2009/10, in which the swine flu virus was prevalent. In the latter example, spatial mixing of individuals is estimated from commuter data. Modelling is based on diffusion approximations derived in Chap. 5 . Statistical inference is carried out using a Bayesian approach developed in Chap. 7 .

Keywords: Synthetic Dataset; Contact Rate; Innovation Scheme; Infectious Period; Connectivity Matrix (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-25969-2_8

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