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Discrete Methods in Epidemiology
About this Title
James Abello, DIMACS, Piscataway, NJ and Graham Cormode, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, Editors
Publication: DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Publication Year:
2006; Volume 70
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-4379-6 (print); 978-1-4704-4027-5 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/dimacs/070
MathSciNet review: MR2230690
MSC: Primary 92-06; Secondary 68T10, 92D30
ReadershipTable of Contents
Front/Back Matter
Chapters
- Selected data mining concepts
- Descriptive epidemiology: A brief introduction
- Biostatistical challenges in molecular data analysis
- Mining online media for global disease outbreak monitoring
- Generalized contingency tables and concept lattices
- Graph partitions and concept lattices
- Using transmission dynamics models to validate vaccine efficacy measures prior to conducting HIV vaccine efficacy trials
- Causal tree of disease transmission and the spreading of infectious diseases
- Structure of social contact networks and their impact on epidemics
- Random graphs (and the spread of infections in a social network)
- Attempting to narrow the integrality gap for the firefighter problem on trees
- Influences on breast cancer survival via SVM classification in the SEER database
- Validation of epidemiological models: Chicken epidemiology in the UK