Using data-driven agent-based models for forecasting emerging infectious diseases

Producing timely, well-informed and reliable forecasts for an ongoing epidemic of an emerging infectious disease is a huge challenge. Epidemiologists and policy makers have to deal with poor data quality, limited understanding of the disease dynamics, rapidly changing social environment and the unce...

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Main Authors: Srinivasan Venkatramanan, Bryan Lewis, Jiangzhuo Chen, Dave Higdon, Anil Vullikanti, Madhav Marathe
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018-03-01
Series:Epidemics
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755436517300221