Mathematical And Statistical Approaches To Aids Epidemiology

Author : Carlos Castillo-Chavez
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642934544
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS Epidemiology written by Carlos Castillo-Chavez and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18 research articles of this volume discuss the major themes that have emerged from mathematical and statistical research in the epidemiology of HIV. The opening paper reviews important recent contributions. Five sections follow: Statistical Methodology and Forecasting, Infectivity and the HIV, Heterogeneity and HIV Transmission Dynamics, Social Dynamics and AIDS, and The Immune System and The HIV. In each, leading experts in AIDS epidemiology present the recent results. Some address the role of variable infectivity, heterogeneous mixing, and long periods of infectiousness in the dynamics of HIV; others concentrate on parameter estimation and short-term forecasting. The last section looks at the interaction between the HIV and the immune system.

Author : Carlos Castillo-Chavez
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ISBN 13 : 9783642934551
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to AIDS Epidemiology written by Carlos Castillo-Chavez and published by . This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ron Brookmeyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199748748
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS Epidemiology written by Ron Brookmeyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS has appeared in more than 130 countries, and over 100,000 cases of AIDS have been reported in the U.S. alone. More and more, the public will be depending on statisticians to provide answers about the future course of this epidemic. This comprehensive work confronts the problems that are unique to AIDS research and unites them under a single conceptual framework. It focuses on methods for the design and analysis of epidemiologic studies, the natural history of AIDS and the transmission of HIV, methods for tracking and projecting the course of the epidemic, and statistical issues in therapeutic trials. The various methods of monitoring and forecasting this disease receive comprehensive treatment. These methods include back-calculation, which the authors developed; interpretation of survey data on HIV prevalence; mathematical models for HIV transmission; and approaches that combine different types of epidemiological data. Much of this material -- such as a discussion of methods for assessing safety of the blood supply, an evaluation of survey approaches, and methods to project pediatric AIDS incidence -- is not available in any other work.

Author : Nicholas P. Jewell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475712294
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book AIDS Epidemiology written by Nicholas P. Jewell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, the Societal Institute of the Mathematical Sciences (SIMS) initiated a series of five-day Research Application Conferences (RAC's) at Alta, Utah, for the purpose of probing in depth societal fields in light of their receptivity to mathematical and statistical analysis. The first eleven conferences addressed ecosystems, epidemiology, energy, environmental health, time series and ecological processes, energy and health, energy conversion and fluid mechanics, environmental epidemiology: risk assessment, atomic bomb survival data: utilization and analysis, modem statistical methods in chronic disease epidemiology and scientific issues in quantitative cancer risk assess ment. These Proceedings are a result of the twelfth conference on Statistical Methodology for Study of the AIDS Epidemic which was held in 1991 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley, California. For five days, 45 speakers and observers contributed their expertise in the relevant biology and statistics. The presentations were timely and the discussion was both enlightening and at times spirited. Members of the Program Committee for the Conference were Klaus Dietz (University of Tiibingen, Germany), Vernon T. Farewell (University of Waterloo, Ontario), and Nicholas P. Jewell (University of California, Berke ley) (Chair). The Conference was supported by a grant to SIMS from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. D. L. Thomsen, Jr.

Author : Cliburn Chan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351647121
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Quantitative Methods for HIV/AIDS Research written by Cliburn Chan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantitative Methods in HIV/AIDS Research provides a comprehensive discussion of modern statistical approaches for the analysis of HIV/AIDS data. The first section focuses on statistical issues in clinical trials and epidemiology that are unique to or particularly challenging in HIV/AIDS research; the second section focuses on the analysis of laboratory data used for immune monitoring, biomarker discovery and vaccine development; the final section focuses on statistical issues in the mathematical modeling of HIV/AIDS pathogenesis, treatment and epidemiology. This book brings together a broad perspective of new quantitative methods in HIV/AIDS research, contributed by statisticians and mathematicians immersed in HIV research, many of whom are current or previous leaders of CFAR quantitative cores. It is the editors’ hope that the work will inspire more statisticians, mathematicians and computer scientists to collaborate and contribute to the interdisciplinary challenges of understanding and addressing the AIDS pandemic.

Author : D. M. Basavarajaiah
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9811501513
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book HIV Transmission written by D. M. Basavarajaiah and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-29 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents models describing HIV transmission rates at population level, discussing the main statistical methods and analytical interventions. It also assesses the practical applicability of the various modelling techniques, offering readers insights into what methods are available and, more importantly, when they should be used to address HIV transmission at global level. The book includes realistic simulation models fitted to clarify the rate of HIV mother-to-child transmission (HIV MTCT), and substantiates the conclusions that can be drawn as well as the appropriate time for making global-level clinical decisions concerning people living with HIV/AIDS (PLHIVs). Intended for students, academics and researchers, the book offers more than just an introduction to the topic – it also features in-depth, yet easy-to-understand, descriptions of a new mathematical/statistical HIV mother-to-child transmission model, making it a useful resource for clinicians, public health workers and policymakers involved in implementing HIV-prevention programmes at national /global level.

Author : Charles J Mode
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814494186
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Processes in Epidemiology written by Charles J Mode and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000-06-09 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AIDS (autoimmune deficiency syndrome) is a devastating human disease caused by HIV, a human immunodeficiency virus, which may be transmitted by either sexual or other contacts in which body fluids are exchanged. Cases of AIDS have been reported in a majority of countries throughout the world, indicating that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is international in scope. This book deals with the mathematical and statistical techniques underlying the models used to understand the population dynamics of not only HIV/AIDS but also other infectious diseases. Attention is given to the development strategies for the prevention and control of the international epidemic within the frameworks of the models. Two distinguishing features of the book are the incorporation of stochastic and deterministic formulations within a unifying conceptual framework and the discussion of issues related to the mathematical designs of models, which are necessary for the rigorous utilization of computer-intensive methods. The book will be of value to applied mathematicians, biomathematicians, biostatisticians, epidemiologists and other scientists interested in applying mathematics and computers to not only the HIV/AIDS epidemic but also other fields of epidemiology. Contents:Biology and Epidemiology of HIV/AIDSModels of Incubation and Infectious PeriodsContinuous Time Markov and Semi-Markov Jump ProcessesSemi-Markov Jump Processes in Discrete TimeModels of HIV Latency Based on a Log-Gaussian ProcessThe Threshold Parameter of One-Type Branching ProcessesA Structural Approach to SIS and SIR ModelsThreshold Parameters for Multi-Type Branching ProcessesComputer Intensive Methods for the Multi-Type CaseNonlinear Stochastic Models in Homosexual PopulationsStochastic Partnership Models in Homosexual PopulationsHeterosexual Population with PartnershipsAge-Dependent Stochastic Models with PartnershipsEpilogue — Future Research Directions Readership: Mathematical & quantitative biologists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, operations research workers, statisticians and biostatisticians. Keywords:Models: Incubation and Infectious Periods;Thresholds;General Branching Process;One Sex Homosexual;Partnerships Two and One Sex;Monte Carlo;Computer Intensive AlgorithmsReviews: “Quantitative epidemiologists and graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics and statistics interested in stochastic epidemic models should find this to be a helpful reference.” Journal of the American Statistical Association “I believe everyone working or wishing to work on epidemic modelling will certainly benefit from this book.” Mathematics Abstracts

Author : Gerardo Chowell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9048123135
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology written by Gerardo Chowell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-06-06 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical and Statistical Estimation Approaches in Epidemiology compiles t- oretical and practical contributions of experts in the analysis of infectious disease epidemics in a single volume. Recent collections have focused in the analyses and simulation of deterministic and stochastic models whose aim is to identify and rank epidemiological and social mechanisms responsible for disease transmission. The contributions in this volume focus on the connections between models and disease data with emphasis on the application of mathematical and statistical approaches that quantify model and data uncertainty. The book is aimed at public health experts, applied mathematicians and sci- tists in the life and social sciences, particularly graduate or advanced undergraduate students, who are interested not only in building and connecting models to data but also in applying and developing methods that quantify uncertainty in the context of infectious diseases. Chowell and Brauer open this volume with an overview of the classical disease transmission models of Kermack-McKendrick including extensions that account for increased levels of epidemiological heterogeneity. Their theoretical tour is followed by the introduction of a simple methodology for the estimation of, the basic reproduction number,R . The use of this methodology 0 is illustrated, using regional data for 1918–1919 and 1968 in uenza pandemics.

Author : W. Y. Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812561390
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deterministic and Stochastic Models of AIDS Epidemics and HIV Infections with Intervention written by W. Y. Tan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - Only book on extensive, deterministic models, statistic models, stochastic models and state space models and statistical methods for HIV epidemic involving IV drug usage and HIV epidemic in homosexual populations. - Provides most recent biological insights into HIV pathogenesis and HIV kinetics at the cellular level, and illustrates how to build up mathematical models based on these biological insights. - Only publication that provides in-depth analysis of HAART treatment protocols and discusses possible improvements to the HAART protocol. The book also provides connection between pharmacokinetics with treatment in HIV-infected individuals.

Author : W. Y. Tan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810241223
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stochastic Modeling of AIDS Epidemiology and HIV Pathogenesis written by W. Y. Tan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses systematically treatment on the development of stochastic, statistical and state space models of the HIV epidemic and of HIV pathogenesis in HIV-infected individuals, and presents the applications of these models. The book is unique in several ways: (1) it uses stochastic difference and differential equations to present the stochastic models of the HIV epidemic and HIV pathogenesis; in this sense, the deterministic models are considered as special cases when the numbers of different type of people or cells are very large (2) it provides, a critical analysis of deterministic and statistical models in the literature; (3) it develops state space models by combining stochastic models and statistical models; and (4) it provides a detailed discussion on the pros and cons of the different modeling approaches. This book is the first to introduce state space models for the HIV epidemic. It is also the first to develop stochastic models and state space models for the HIV pathogenesis in HIV-infected individuals.