edited by Stefan Ma (Ministry of Health Singapore, Singapore) & Yingcun Xia (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Table of Contents (31k)
Preface (157k)
Foreword (35k)
Chapter 1: The Basic Epidemiology Models: Models, Expressions for R₀, Parameter Estimation, and Applications (740k)

The Institute for Mathematical Sciences at the National University of Singapore hosted a research program on Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Diseases: Dynamics and Control from 15 August to 9 October 2005. As part of the program, tutorials for graduate students and junior researchers were given by leading experts in the field.

This invaluable volume is a collection of three expanded lecture notes of those tutorials which cover a wide range of topics including basic mathematical details for various epidemic models, statistical distribution theory, and applications with real-life examples with implications for health policy makers.

• The Basic Epidemiology Models: Models, Expressions for R₀, Parameter Estimation, and Applications (H W Hethcote)
• Epidemiology Models with Variable Population Size (H W Hethcote)
• Age-Structured Epidemiology Models and Expressions for R₀ (H W Hethcote)
• Clinical and Public Health Applications of Mathematical Models (J W Glasser)
• Non-Identifiables and Invariant Quantities in Infectious Disease Models (P Yan)