Nine challenges for deterministic epidemic models

Deterministic models have a long history of being applied to the study of infectious disease epidemiology. We highlight and discuss nine challenges in this area. The first two concern the endemic equilibrium and its stability. We indicate the need for models that describe multi-strain infections, i...

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Main Authors: Mick Roberts, Viggo Andreasen, Alun Lloyd, Lorenzo Pellis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-03-01
Series:Epidemics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436514000553