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A Unified Multi-State Approach for Investigating the Dynamics of Chronic and Infectious Diseases

2026-01-22 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Infectious diseases and chronic diseases are two major fields in epidemiology that have traditionally been studied separately because of their distinct etiologies and modeling methods. Infectious disease data are typically collected at an aggregated level and analyzed using compartmental models, most commonly the susceptible (S), infectious (I), and recovered (R) (SIR) model, whereas chronic disease data are usually collected at the individual level and analyzed using multi-state survival models...

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