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ArticleHeliyon2023

Sensitivity analysis and parameters estimation for the transmission of lymphatic filariasis.

Mussa A Stephano, Maranya M Mayengo, Jacob I Irunde, Dmitry Kuznetsov

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Article in Heliyon, 2023. 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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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Mussa A StephanoSchool of Computation and Communication Science and Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), P.O.BOX 447 Arusha, Tanzania.
Maranya M MayengoSchool of Computation and Communication Science and Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), P.O.BOX 447 Arusha, Tanzania.
Jacob I IrundeMkwawa University College of Education, Department of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, P.O.Box 2513, Iringa, Tanzania.
Dmitry KuznetsovSchool of Computation and Communication Science and Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST), P.O.BOX 447 Arusha, Tanzania.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lymphatic filariasis is a neglected tropical disease which poses public health concern and socio-economic challenges in developing and low-income countries. In this paper, we formulate a deterministic mathematical model for transmission dynamics of lymphatic filariasis to generate data by white noise and use least square method to estimate parameter values. The validity of estimated parameter values is tested by Gaussian distribution method. The residuals of model outputs are normally distributed and hence can be used to study the dynamics of Lymphatic filariasis. After deriving the basic reproduction number,

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AcuteAsymptomaticChronicDeterministic modelLymphatic filariasis

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PMID37810166
PMCPMC10559806

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