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January/February 2010 (vol. 12 no. 1)
pp. 4-6
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Pam Frost Gorder, "Computational Epidemiology," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 4-6, January/February, 2010.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCSE.2010.7,
author = {Pam Frost Gorder},
title = {Computational Epidemiology},
journal ={Computing in Science and Engineering},
volume = {12},
number = {1},
issn = {1521-9615},
year = {2010},
pages = {4-6},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCSE.2010.7},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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TY - MGZN
JO - Computing in Science and Engineering
TI - Computational Epidemiology
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SN - 1521-9615
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EPD - 4-6
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PY - 2010
KW - Keywords: computational epidemiology
KW - social network modeling
KW - modeling human behavior
KW - disease tracking
KW - spatial statistics
KW - spatio-temporal statistics
KW - swine flu
KW - H1N1
KW - influenza
VL - 12
JA - Computing in Science and Engineering
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Born from a desire to predict the future, epidemiology has largely been limited to studying the past. Now, computational epidemiology researchers are harnessing computing power to crack the complicated mystery of how diseases spread.

1. D.G. McNeil, "Models' Projections for Flu Miss Mark by Wide Margin," The New York Times,1 June 2010 www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/health02model.html.

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Keywords: computational epidemiology, social network modeling, modeling human behavior, disease tracking, spatial statistics, spatio-temporal statistics, swine flu, H1N1, influenza
Citation:
Pam Frost Gorder, "Computational Epidemiology," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 4-6, Jan.-Feb. 2010, doi:10.1109/MCSE.2010.7
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