Epidemic Modelling : An Introduction (Cambridge Studies in Mathematical Biology)

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Summary: Old-fashioned
Review: The authors mainly give an introduction how to do the calculations by hand for several epidemic models. However, some of their tricks for doing the calculations are not very interesting anymore in times where computers are available. More imporatant, they hardly ever explain why they choose a particular model, what they want to calculate and how to interpret the results of the calculations. So reading the book does not give you much insight in epidemic modelling, only in doing some calculation. Furthermore they ignore all kind of recent approaches in epidemic modelling. (Most references are quite old (before 1990) and the few more recent references are most of the time only mentioned without going into detail.)