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SUBMITTER: Scarpino SV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6385200 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scarpino Samuel V SV Petri Giovanni G
Nature communications 20190222 1
Infectious disease outbreaks recapitulate biology: they emerge from the multi-level interaction of hosts, pathogens, and environment. Therefore, outbreak forecasting requires an integrative approach to modeling. While specific components of outbreaks are predictable, it remains unclear whether fundamental limits to outbreak prediction exist. Here, adopting permutation entropy as a model independent measure of predictability, we study the predictability of a diverse collection of outbreaks and id ...[more]