Understanding how infectious diseases spread depends on unlocking secrets held in existing data
Wednesday, December 24, 2008 - 09:07
in Mathematics & Economics
Often experiments are needed to make scientific progress, but sometimes the answers lie in data already collected, requiring new analysis tools to unlock the secrets. This applies to infectious disease transmission, main topic of a recent workshop organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which called for development of new mathematical and statistical tools capable of probing deeper into existing databases relating to human contact and pathogens...
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