The ecology of infectious disease in wildlife has become a pivotal theme in animal and
public health. Studies of infectious disease ecology rely on robust surveillance of pathogens …

The theory of disease transmission provides a consistent framework within which to design,
evaluate, and monitor measles elimination programs. Elimination of measles requires …

Background Mathematical modelling of infectious diseases transmitted by the respiratory or
close-contact route (eg, pandemic influenza) is increasingly being used to determine the …

SARS-CoV-2 is transmitted primarily through close, person-to-person interactions. Physical
distancing policies can control the spread of SARS-CoV-2 by reducing the amount of these …

The concept of frailty offers a convenient way to introduce unobserved heterogeneity and
associations into models for survival data. In its simplest form, frailty is an unobserved …

The estimation of transmission parameters has been problematic for diseases that rely
predominantly on transmission of pathogens from person to person through small infectious …

The seminal paper by Daniel Bernoulli published in 1766 is put into a new perspective. After
a short account of smallpox inoculation and of Bernoulli's life, the motivation for that paper …

Categorical data arise often in many fields, including biometrics, economics, management,
manufacturing, marketing, psychology, and sociology. This book provides an introduction to …

Establishing how many people have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 remains an urgent
priority for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic. Serological tests that identify past infection …

We present a method for estimating transmission matrices that describe the mixing and the
probability of infection between age groups. Transmission matrices can be used to estimate …