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Pandemics
Research results from Comenius University update understanding of pandemics
June 2nd, 2009
"The aim of this paper is to assess the expected socio-economic impacts of various scenarios of pandemic influenza mitigation on the economy and mortality for Slovakia. Compared to similar past studies (e.g," scientists in Bratislava, Slovakia report. "Van Genugten et al. (2003)), our approach bears a significant difference. Whereas those studies work from the very beginning with the expected values of the data, we have treated the data as well as the model parameters as random variables. Results in the form of probability distributions and their characteristics (expected values and tolerance intervals) were obtained by stochastic Monte Carlo simulations of random...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-06-02)
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