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As a first application of the methods introduced in the first two parts of this book, this chapter investigates the spread of human influenza. More precisely, it analyses a well-known dataset on an influenza outbreak in a British boarding school and the spatial spread of influenza in Germany during the season 2009/10, in which the swine flu virus was prevalent. In the latter example, spatial mixing of individuals is estimated from commuter data. Modelling is based on diffusion approximations derived in Chap. 5. Statistical inference is carried out using a Bayesian approach developed in Chap. 7.
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Fuchs, C. (2013). Application I: Spread of Influenza. In: Inference for Diffusion Processes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25969-2_8
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