Monitoring the health of populations by tracking disease outbreaks : saving humanity from the next plague
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by Steven E. Rigdon & Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.
--Boca Raton, FL:
CRC Press
, c2020.
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- Location
- Online
Today the citizens of developed counties have never experienced a large-scale disease outbreak. One reason is the success of the public health community, including epidemiologists and biostatisticians, in tracking and identifying disease outbreaks. Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague is the story of the application of statistics for disease detection and tracking.
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- Author
- Rigdon, Steven E.
- Other Authors
- Fricker, Ronald D Jr.
- Responsibility
- by Steven E. Rigdon & Ronald D. Fricker, Jr.
- Place of Publication
- Boca Raton, FL
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Series
- ASA-CRC series on statistical reasoning in science and society
- ISBN
- 9780367242831
- 9781351725019
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Biostatistics - methods
- Disease Outbreaks
- Epidemiologic Methods
- Public Health Practice
- Statistics as Topic
- Specialty
- Epidemiology
- Public Health
- Abstract
- Today the citizens of developed counties have never experienced a large-scale disease outbreak. One reason is the success of the public health community, including epidemiologists and biostatisticians, in tracking and identifying disease outbreaks. Monitoring the Health of Populations by Tracking Disease Outbreaks: Saving Humanity from the Next Plague is the story of the application of statistics for disease detection and tracking.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
