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SUBMITTER: Seymour RG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8915959 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seymour Rowland G RG Kypraios Theodore T O'Neill Philip D PD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20220301 10
SignificanceMathematical models of infectious disease transmission continue to play a vital role in understanding, mitigating, and preventing outbreaks. The vast majority of epidemic models in the literature are parametric, meaning that they contain inherent assumptions about how transmission occurs in a population. However, such assumptions can be lacking in appropriate biological or epidemiological justification and in consequence lead to erroneous scientific conclusions and misleading predict ...[more]