edited by Zhien Ma (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), Yicang Zhou (Xi'an Jiaotong University, China), & Jianhong Wu (York University, Canada)

This book provides a systematic introduction to the fundamental methods and techniques and the frontiers of — along with many new ideas and results on — infectious disease modeling, parameter estimation and transmission dynamics. It provides complementary approaches, from deterministic to statistical to network modeling; and it seeks viewpoints of the same issues from different angles, from mathematical modeling to statistical analysis to computer simulations and finally to concrete applications.