edited by Zhien Ma (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), Yicang Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), & Jianhong Wu (York University, Canada)

Table of Contents (39k)
Preface (114k)
Chapter 1: Some Recent Results on Epidemic Dynamics Obtained by Our Group (1,152k)

This book provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental methods and techniques and the frontiers of — along with many new ideas and results on — infectious disease modeling, parameter estimation and transmission dynamics. It provides complementary approaches, from deterministic to statistical to network modeling; and it seeks viewpoints of the same issues from different angles, from mathematical modeling to statistical analysis to computer simulations and finally to concrete applications.

• Some Recent Results on Epidemic Dynamics (Z Ma)
• Modeling SARS, West Nile Virus, Pandemic Influenza and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases: A Canadian Team's Adventure (F Brauer & J Wu)
• Diseases in Metapopulations (J Arino)
• Modeling the Start of a Disease Outbreak (F Brauer)
• Mathematical Techniques in the Evolutionary Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases (T Day)
• The Uses of Epidemiological Models in the Study of Disease Control (Z-L Feng et al.)
• Assessing the Burden of Congenital Rubella Syndrome and Ensuring Optimal Mitigation via Mathematical Modeling (J W Glasser & M Birmingham)
• Persistence of Vertically Transmitted Parasite Strains Which Protect Against More Virulent Horizontally Transmitted Strains (T Dhirasakdanon & H R Thieme)
• Richards Model: A Simple Procedure for Real-Time Prediction of Outbreak Severity (Y-H Hsieh)
• The Basic Reproduction Number and the Final Size of an Epidemic (J Watmough)
• Epidemic Models with Reservoirs (K P Hadeler)
• Global Stability in Multigroup Epidemic Models (H-B Guo et al.)
• Epidemic Models with Time Delays (W-D Wang)
• A Simulation Approach to Analysis of Antiviral Stockpile Sizes for Infuenza Pandemic (S-H Zhang)
• Modeling and Simulation Studies of West Nile Virus in Southern Ontario, Canada (H-P Zhu)