Epidemic
Research from University of Washington, Center for Statistics provides new data on epidemic
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, February 18th, 2007
A new study, "Interval estimates for epidemic thresholds in two-sex network models," is now available. "Epidemic thresholds in network models of heterogeneous populations characterized by highly right-skewed contact distributions can be very small. When the population is above the threshold, an epidemic is inevitable and conventional control measures to reduce the transmissibility of a pathogen will fail to eradicate it," scientists writing in the journal Theoretical Population Biology report.
"We consider a two-sex network model for a sexually transmitted disease which assumes random mixing conditional on the degree distribution. We derive expressions for the...
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