Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 156 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 248 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Statistics
Buch, Englisch, Band 151, 156 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 248 g
Reihe: Lecture Notes in Statistics
ISBN: 978-0-387-95050-1
Verlag: Springer
The present lecture notes describe stochastic epidemic models and methods for their statistical analysis. Our aim is to present ideas for such models, and methods for their analysis; along the way we make practical use of several probabilistic and statistical techniques. This will be done without focusing on any specific disease, and instead rigorously analyzing rather simple models. The reader of these lecture notes could thus have a two-fold purpose in mind: to learn about epidemic models and their statistical analysis, and/or to learn and apply techniques in probability and statistics. The lecture notes require an early graduate level knowledge of probability and They introduce several techniques which might be new to students, but our statistics. intention is to present these keeping the technical level at a minlmum. Techniques that are explained and applied in the lecture notes are, for example: coupling, diffusion approximation, random graphs, likelihood theory for counting processes, martingales, the EM-algorithm and MCMC methods. The aim is to introduce and apply these techniques, thus hopefully motivating their further theoretical treatment. A few sections, mainly in Chapter 5, assume some knowledge of weak convergence; we hope that readers not familiar with this theory can understand the these parts at a heuristic level. The text is divided into two distinct but related parts: modelling and estimation.
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Research
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Fachgebiete
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Angewandte Biologie Biomathematik
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Elementare Stochastik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik
- Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mathematik für Ingenieure
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Numerische Mathematik
- Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Stochastische Prozesse
Weitere Infos & Material
I: Stochastic Modelling.- 1. Introduction.- 2. The standard SIR epidemic model.- 3. Coupling methods.- 4. The threshold limit theorem.- 5. Density dependent jump Markov processes.- 6. Multitype epidemics.- 7. Epidemics and graphs.- 8. Models for endemic diseases.- II: Estimation.- 9. Complete observation of the epidemic process.- 10. Estimation in partially observed epidemics.- 11. Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods.- 12. Vaccination.- References.
