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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2017

Products of Compartmental Models in Epidemiology.

Lee Worden, Travis C Porco

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Dynamical Modeling as a Tool for Inferring Causation.American journal of epidemiology · 2022
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  3. Products of Compartmental Models in Epidemiology.Computational and mathematical methods in medicine · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Lee WordenFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9799-0183
Travis C PorcoFrancis I. Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8813-3171

Funding

"Modeling contact investigation and rapid response"U01GM087728 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN FRANCISCO · PI PORCO, TRAVIS CHRISTIAN · 2011 to 2015
$2.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM087728
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We show that many structured epidemic models may be described using a straightforward product structure in this paper. Such products, derived from products of directed graphs, may represent useful refinements including geographic and demographic structure, age structure, gender, risk groups, or immunity status. Extension to multistrain dynamics, that is, pathogen heterogeneity, is also shown to be feasible in this framework. Systematic use of such products may aid in model development and exploration, can yield insight, and could form the basis of a systematic approach to numerical structural sensitivity analysis.

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Epidemiologic MethodsModels, BiologicalHumans

Identifiers

PMID28900467
PMCPMC5576399

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