(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 13.1 Variability of Infectivity with Time-Since-Infection Many diseases progress quickly. Once infected, an individual goes through a short incubation…
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 10.1 Infectious Diseases in Animal Populations Infectious disease pathogens affect numerous animal populations. An animal population, by definition, is…
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 2.1 Kermack–McKendrick SIR Epidemic Model Introduction to epidemic modeling is usually made through one of the first epidemic models…
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 11.1 Introduction Zoonotic diseases are contagious diseases that are transmitted between animals and humans. These diseases are caused by…
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 6.1 Introduction In the previous chapters, we have learned to develop both simple and complex epidemic models and to…
(1) Department of Mathematics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA 1.1 Epidemiology Epidemiology is the subject that studies the patterns of health and illness and associated factors at the…
(10.1) As such, if we know the value of two of these variables, we will automatically know the value of the third. Consequently, when the true underlying process affecting a…
Fig. 5.1 Distribution of incident cases of CF in the UK by deprivation quintile 1996–2010. Error bars represent 95 % binomial CIs (n = 2066) (Source: Adapted from Taylor-Robinson et al. 2013b) Clinical…
(8.1) In the end, the analyst will obtain, for each individual j, a value for: (a) the intercept π 0 , which defines the predicted value of Y when age = 0;…
BMI (kg/m−2), SD BMI (kg/m−2), SD BMI (kg/m−2), SD Age Sample size Females Males Study sample 13 321 17.81, 2.14 16.93, 1.42 17.39, 1.88 14 279 18.66, 2.08 17.68,…
