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Studies from C. Okais et al Provide New Data on Vaccines

Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 9th, 2011

2011 MAR 9 -- "Mathematical models may be used to help clarify dynamics of several infectious diseases," scientists in Lyon, France report.

"Because of the complexity of some models and the high degree of uncertainty in estimating many parameters, the present study proposes a rigorous framework for sensitivity analyses of mathematical models using as example a model to assess varicella and herpes zoster incidence. Its main steps are to assess the uncertainty of the factors to be studied, to evaluate qualitatively and quantitatively the impacts of these factors on model results, and to conduct an univariate and multivariate sensitivity analysis," wrote C....

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