Discrete Methods in Epidemiology: DIMACS Workshop, Date Mining and Epidemioloogy, March 18-19, 2004, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University

Discrete Methods in Epidemiology: DIMACS Workshop, Date Mining and Epidemioloogy, March 18-19, 2004, DIMACS Center, Rutgers University

by James M. Abello, Graham Cormode
     
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:
9780821837542
Publisher:
American Mathematical Society
Publication date:
02/28/2006
Series:
DIMACS Series in Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
Edition description:
New Edition
Pages:
246
Product dimensions:
7.20(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Selected data mining concepts1
Descriptive epidemiology : a brief introduction41
Biostatistical challenges in molecular data analysis63
Mining online media for global disease outbreak monitoring73
Generalized contingency tables and concept lattices93
Graph partitions and concept lattices115
Using transmission dynamics models to validate vaccine efficacy measures prior to conducting HIV vaccine efficacy trials139
Causal tree of disease transmission and the spreading of infectious diseases163
Structure of social contact networks and their impact on epidemics181
Random graphs (and the spread of infections in a social network)215
Attempting to narrow the integrality gap for the firefighter problem on trees225
Influences on breast cancer survival via SVM classification in the SEER database233
Validation of epidemiological models : chicken epidemiology in the UK243

Read More

Customer Reviews

Average Review:

Write a Review

and post it to your social network

     

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

See all customer reviews >