Abstract
Measles epidemiology offers a unique perspective on the construction of models to describe the dynamics of ecological systems. Simple models of measles transmission can generate deterministic chaos by various mechanisms. However, incorporating more biological realism into the model, in the form of age structure and realism in the seasonal forcing function, can suppress complex dynamics. Adding stochastic terms the the models restores complex dynamics, but raises new questions about demographic scale and population structure in these models.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 75-81 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |
| Volume | 251 |
| Issue number | 1330 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1993 |
| Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Immunology and Microbiology
- General Environmental Science
- General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
- General Agricultural and Biological Sciences