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- Bjørnstad, O. N., Shea, K., Krzywinski, M., & Altman, N.
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- Pennsylvania State University (US)
- Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre (CA)
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- Krzywinski, Martin
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- Nature Methods
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- 2020-04-20
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- 455-456
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- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Applied Mathematics › Mathematical and Theoretical Epidemiology and Ecology Models
- Physical Sciences › Mathematics › Modeling and Simulation › COVID-19 epidemiological studies
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Keywords
- infectious disease epidemics, epidemic modeling, plague, history of epidemics
- MeSH terms
- Communicable Diseases, Biological Evolution, Humans, Models, Theoretical, Vaccination, Epidemics
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