This text provides essential modeling skills and methodology for the
study of infectious diseases through a one-semester modeling course or
directed individual studies. The book includes mathematical descriptions
of epidemiological concepts, and uses classic epidemic models to
introduce different mathematical methods in model analysis. Matlab codes
are also included for numerical implementations.
It is primarily written for upper undergraduate and beginning graduate
students in mathematical sciences who have an interest in mathematical
modeling of infectious diseases. Although written in a rigorous
mathematical manner, the style is not unfriendly to non-mathematicians.